Rescue mission for Earhart stalled by severe weather
Honolulu dispatch reports Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan facing grim odds as storms force a large naval flying boat to turn back from the South Pacific search. The Itasca resumes duty from Howland Island while destroyers and aircraft tenders are deployed along the return route.
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Honolulu
Amelia Earhart
Fred Noonan
Coast Guard
Itasca
South Pacific
Howland Island
Miss Earhart
Barhart Hunt Pond
Washington empty as officials flee for July 4 weekend
Washington deserted as the cabinet and thousands of government workers left for the holiday weekend. Congress recessed and departments closed while President Roosevelt stayed at Hyde Park. Civil liberties committee testimony and tax questions were postponed amid the pause for rest and sport.
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Washington
Congress
Roosevelt
Hyde Park
New York
Supreme Court
Senate
Mr. Roosevelt
Windsor Duchess's Ex Husband to Wed Detroit Matron
Commander Earl Winfield Spencer, first husband of Wallis Simpson, will marry Detroit society figure Norma Reese Johnson tomorrow at her Beverly Hills home with only close relatives and friends in attendance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Santa Monica
Calif
Earl Winfield Spencer
Duchess of Windsor
Wallis Warfield
Norma Reese Johnson
Detroit Society
Beverly Hills
Britain Rearms to Compel Respect and Secure Mediterranean
London reports that Britain is rearming to safeguard its rights and interests including Spain’s territorial integrity and free access to the Mediterranean. Prime Minister Chamberlain vows rapid completion of Britain’s 7.5 billion dollar rearmament while Foreign Secretary Eden warns Britain will defend Spain's integrity and keep the Mediterranean open as a main arterial road amid civil war and foreign meddling.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Europe
Chamberlain
Eden
Mediterranean
London
Britain
Spain
Detwa Wintetas Naeilia Mhaw
Wweeur Berlain
Anthony Eden
Italy
Germany
Birmingham
Coughton
Warwickshire
India
East
Orient
Perkins Says Sit-Down Strikes Are Unsuitable for America
Secretary Perkins stated sit down strikes are not lawful or desirable and urged unions to abandon the method. She noted officers and herself have urged leaders to remove workers from plants using sit downs and warned of hazards to democratic trade unionism and orderly collective bargaining.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
Washington
Perkins
Representative Ditter
R-Pa
General Motors
Business Faced with Unrest At Half Way Mark
By Associated Press Thomas Eb Flanagan reports mid year business activity shows uneven progress with industrial strife affecting trade, and seasonal drag as Fourth of July holidays ease production. Steel plants resume back to work as manufacturing shows only a modest leveling off after spring gains.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Thomas EB
Flanagan
Scouts Present Pageants At National Jamboree Show
Thousands of Scouts and visitors at the National Jamboree in Washington cheered as southeast youth staged a pageant titled Down in Dixie. Louisiana Arkansas Alabama Mississippi and Tennessee tableaued with cotton plants sugar cane and a Down South mood near the Washington monument. Florida Georgia North Carolina and South Carolina offered Florida seaboard history with Ponce De Leon and the Fountain of Youth. The program closed with Raleigh De Soto Wright Brothers Kittyhawk and Savannah themes.
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Washington
Dixie
Southeast
Down In
Louisiana
Arkansas
Alabama
Mississippi
Tennessee
Washington Monument
Florida
Georgia
Nort
Individual Tax Payers Surpass Business Firms in Income Tax
The treasury reported for the 1937 fiscal year that individuals paid 996.36 million dollars in income taxes, surpassing corporations at 893.96 million. Delinquent tax collections totaled 218,557 dollars, with back taxes making up about 859.06 million of roughly 2.15 billion in total receipts for the year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
The
Treasury
Internal Revenue Bureau
First Body Recovered From Plane Crash
The first body recovered from the December crash of the Los Angeles to Salt Lake City transport plane was brought down the Wasatch Mountains today. The remains are tentatively identified as Mrs. John F Wolfe of Chicago, one of seven aboard.
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Salt Lake City
Los Angeles
Judge Sinclair Refuses Injunction in East Lumberton Labor Dispute
In Fayetteville North Carolina Judge Sinclair denied both sides petitions for injunctions in the East Lumberton labor controversy. The TWOC CIO affiliate sought to bar shoulder to shoulder barriers at the Mansfield Mill while Mansfield Mill countered to restrain TWOC organizer Myles Horton from illegal picketing. The judge said relief by injunction was unnecessary as state authorities have power to maintain peace and protect workers strikers and property rights.
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Fayetteville
N. C
Sinclair
Mansfield Mill
Textile Workers Organizing Committee
East Lumberton
TWOC
CIO
Myles Horton
Bicyclist Fatally Hit In North Carolina Accident
In Littleton North Carolina on July 3 a car struck 12 year old James Edward Shearin as he rode his bicycle near his home. State patrolman said the crash appeared unavoidable and identified the driver as Harvey Hazelwood of Roanoke Rapids.
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Littleton
N. C
James Edward Shearin
Harvey Hazelwood
Roanoke Rapida
Oldest American rider Eddie Martin nets 33-year streak
Latonia Ky July 3 Jockey Eddie Martin is identified as the oldest rider on American tracks. He has booted them home for 33 years marking a long career in horse racing.
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Rocker Latonia
Eddie Martin
Jews Restricted in Upper Silesia by German Decree
Berlin reports Germany imposed new limits on Jews in Upper Silesia, banning from medical and judicial fields and civil service. The decree takes effect July 15 as Poland regains the territory after plebiscite led transfer.
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Berlin
Germany
Silesia
League of Nations
Poland
Three Die As Private Plane Crashes Near Oneonta
A private landing field crash near Oneonta New York kills H H Lynn 60 Morris founder of Lynn Manufacturing Mrs Dorothea Hansen 60 Endicott and Captain George Stead 43 Norwich NY with Arthur Hansen 84 severely burned and the fourth occupant severely injured The crash occurred at H H Lynn’s field twelve miles from Oneonta and involved a cabin monoplane owned by Lynn.
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Oneonta
N. Y
H. H. Lynn
Lynn
Morris, N. Y
Lynn Manufacturing Company
George Stead
Norwich
Army Air Corps
Why No Pontoons On Ship
Amelia Earhart explains she did not equip her plane with pontoons for the world flight citing weight and speed trade offs. She faced a 2570 mile leg from Howland Island to Lae New Guinea and relied on extra fuel rather than pontoons with emergency flotation via inflated tanks and a rubber lifeboat carried aboard.
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Oakland
Calif
Amelia Earhart
Howland Island
Lae
New Guinea
SANE FOURTH IS URGED UPON ALL DURING HOLIDAY
Officials across many cities promote safe displays and vigilance to prevent fires injuries and deaths during July 4 celebrations. Last year the double holiday saw 346 fatalities with fireworks traffic and drowning as leading causes. Sales bans cover multiple cities and states while Boy Scouts at the National Jamboree in Washington are urged to model restraint and safety. Chicago expects record air traffic and 750000 residents to leave by car.
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Nampa
Idaho
St. Paul
Seattle
Spokane
Cleveland
Chicago
Des Moines
Central Falls
Providence
R. I
Nashville
Chattanooga
Knoxville
Tenn
Pittsburgh
Philadelphia
Omaha
District of Columbia
Atlanta
Little Rock
Milwaukee
San Francisco
Oakland
Columbia
D. C
Iowa
Arizona
North Caro
Lina
West Virginia
Oklahoma City
Washington
White House
Twelve Thousand WPA Workers Protest Curtailment Of Jobs
A July 3 protest in New York by 12 000 WPA workers condemned federal budget cuts aiming to reduce WPA labor from 168 000 to 135 000 by October 15. Demonstrations included hunger strikes by federal theater workers and a massed attack on a closed WPA office, with 37 arrests in the burglary case.
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New York
WPA
City Projects Council
Workers Alliance
Train Side Swipe Injures Five In Roanoke Area Crash
A switch engine sideswiped a Winston Salem passenger train near Roanoke station causing two locomotives to derail and 200 feet of track to be torn up. Injured passengers include Alice Stuart of New Haven and Bell Clapton of Northford with several others examined by doctors.
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Roanoke
Winston- Salem
Norfolk and Western
Alice Stuart
New Haven
Bell Clapton
Negro
Northford
W. Va
O. O. Gray
Winston-Salem
J. 8. Kiger
Alex G. Biggs
Alkin
N. C
H. Burgess
High Point
W. Hill
Ramseur
Elizabeth Jacobs
Ot High Point
Leaksville Woman Fatally Injured In Auto Crash
Salisbury July 3 AP Mrs A E Shaw of Leaksville route 1 died at a local hospital from injuries suffered in an automobile accident near here. Her husband drove the car and was bruised and cut. he is jailed in Rowan county pending further inquiries. Mrs Shaw was thrown from the car when it overturned.
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Salisbury
A. E. Shaw
Leaksville
Route 1
Here
Rowan County
Cotton Textile Mills Slow Up in Carolinas
W. M. McLaurine of the American Cotton Manufacturers association said mills in the Carolinas will suspend operations next week. The move aims to give employers a vacation, curtail production during the dull season, and allow repairs and new machinery installation. Some silk mills will also suspend, though a few plants still have orders and will run the last two days of the week.
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Charlotte
W. M. McLaurine
American Cotton Manufacturers Association
Carolinas
MacLaurine
Guards Tighten Stand At Steel Plants In Zone
Johnstown Pennsylvania July 3 state police tightened guards around Bethlehem Steel Cambria Works after a 21 year old former worker Ernest Layton was arrested for allegedly throwing three lit dynamite sticks at a freight train from the plant. Layton said two men recruited him to the act. Police expanded protection of water supplies pipelines and railroad property while other men were questioned. Company officials call the pair non strikers and a possible company inspired plot.
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Associated Press
Johnstown
Bethlehem Steel
Cambria
William A. Clark
Ernest Layton
Clark
Capt. Clark
Layton
Co. W. Jones
The
Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen
Jones
Sidney D. Evans
Japan Tenses for Possible New Amur Crisis
Tokyo warned that illegal acts against Manchoukuo would not be tolerated while awaiting the promised evacuation of Soviet troops and about 20 river gunboats from the Amur region. Dispatches said Moscow planned to begin this afternoon and end the tensions from the previous day.
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Tokyo
Apan
Manchuria
Amur
Hsinking
Manchoukuo
Japan
Seniuru
Bolshoi
Moscow
Masons Gather at Waynesville in Three Day Royal Masters Session
Waynesville hosts a three day gathering of the council of North Carolina royal and select masters with visiting York Rite Masons from 15 states and Canada. A memorial chest burial is planned in a vault at the eastern entrance of the Great Smoky Mountain National Park to remain undisturbed for 34 years.
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Waynesville
Council of North Carolina
Royal and Select Masters
States
Canada
Great Smoky Mountain National Park
Soviet Drive Against Church Intensifies Across Faiths
Moscow reports accuse Protestant Catholic and Russian Orthodox clergy of aiding fascist plots and espionage. Officials claim numerous church affiliated individuals were liquidated or condemned as spies and wreckers across Europe and the Far East, with cases at Vladivostok and higher executions in the region.
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Moscow
Germany
Japan
Poland
Estonia
Far East
Union
Pacific Star
Khabarovek
Eria
Vladivostok
Russian Far East
State
Communist Party
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SOS
Wally
Robert M. LaFall
Mill
Upper
Dorothea Hansen
Endicott, N. Y
Sideswipe
J. H. Burgess
Mills
Russia
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