Unofficial Emissaries Seek to Reunite Democratic Party
Three White House aides led by James Farley traveled aboard the train bearing Senator Robinson to Little Rock to ease party tensions after his death. Charles West and Joseph Keenan assisted, aiming to quell disputes over Senate leadership between Barkley and Harrison without taking sides.
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Robinson Funral
White House
Robinson
Ark
Senate
James A. Farley
Little Rock
New Deal
Charles West
Interior Department
Joseph B. Keenan
Farley
Barkley
D-Ky
Harrison
D-Miss
Congress
Fast rebound in steel and wholesale trade after holidays
The post holiday period showed faster business activity with steel output at 82.7 percent capacity, wholesale demand steady, and grain prices lifting farmers. The Commerce Department noted a brighter retail picture across 37 cities while building activity lagged due to material and labor costs. Large plant projects included a 5 million smelter in Hurley New Mexico and 12 million for Public Service of New Jersey electric facilities.
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Thomas E. Flanagan
Associated Press
Commerce Department
American Iron & Steel Institute
Hurley
N. M
Nevada Copper
North China crisis raises Japanese military pressure
Tientsin reports show the Japanese army increasing forces in North China and threatening drastic action unless Chinese resistance eases. Roosevelt and Hull weigh policy options as China-Japan clashes escalate, with U S considering neutrality act use if war state arises.
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Tientsin
North China
Peiping-Tients Sands
Manchuria
Korea
Japan
Nying
Washington
Roosevelt
Hull
United States
China
Potomac
Far East
Southern Conference on Human Relations urged southern development
Dr. Howard Odom of UNC urged the South to boost development in science and technology through new industry and agriculture and to improve training for youth. Henry N. Clarke spoke on industrial morale. The committee clarified it did not authorize a telegram praising a Labor official's speech.
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Blue Ridge
N. C
Howard Odom
Chapel Hill
Southern Conference On Human Relations
South
Odom
Institute For Research In Social Science
University of North Carolina
Henry N. Clarke
Cleveland
Labor
Frances Perkins
Edward F. McGrady
Britain and Germany Sign Bilateral Naval Accord
London reports that Germany and Soviet Russia accepted London naval treaty limits by bilateral deals with Great Britain. The pacts restrict battleships to 35,000 tons, cruisers to 8,000 tons, aircraft carriers to 23,000 tons and submarines to 2,000 tons. Russia gains relief on Far East vessel data. Japan rejects overall limits.
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Germany
Soviet
Russia
London
Great Britain
France
United States
Japan
Far East
Parachute Jump Ends Tragedy in Westbury
Parachute writer Leslie Fulenwider, 39, tried to gain realism by leaping 2000 feet from a plane at Westbury New York. His body, tangled in an emergency chute that failed to open fully, was found in a vacant lot. He took off from Roosevelt Field in a chartered plane piloted by Russell W. Thaw, son of Harry Thaw and Evelyn Nesbit Thaw.
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Westbury
N. Y
Leslie Fulenwider
Joseph Crane
Julenwider
Roosevelt Field
Russell W. Thaw
Harry K. Thaw
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw
Weather kills two in state as heat, storms ease
Lightning struck in Albemarle killing Mrs Estelle Lemonds while J T Johnson of High Point died from heat at a Roanoke Rapids hospital. Durham led with 98 degrees and Charlotte 97 as the heat eases with forecast rain. Beaches and mountain resorts near capacity. Greensboro 93 and Winston Salem 92.
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Charlotte
J. T. Johnson
High Point
Roanoke Rapids
Estelle Lemonds
Albemarle
Durham
Greensboro
Winston- Salem
Albemarle Woman Chosen to Lead State WPA Library Project
Mrs. Mary E. Campbell announces Miss Julius Amis of Albemarle as state supervisor of the WPA library project. Amis has led Stanly County Public Library for seven years.
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Raleigh
Mary E. Campbell
WPA
Women’s and Professional Projects
Julius Amis
Albemarle
Miss Amis
Stanly County
TWOC Wins Victory In Rayon Walkout
The Textile Workers Organizing Committee won a collective bargaining election at Industrial Rayon Corp plant by 639 to 431. TWOC organizer Robert Gaffney called the vote a great victory after directing a strike of the Synthetic Yarn Federation at the plant since March 29.
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Textile Workers Organizing Committee
Industrial Rayon Corporation
Robert Gaffney
TWOC
Synthetic Yarn Federation
End of Earhart Search Likely As Fuel Runs Low
The Amelia Earhart search faces closure as fuel aboard the aircraft carrier Lexington grows scarce. Two more days of scouting remain, then Lexington heads to San Diego with three accompanying destroyers. Itasca and Swan confirm Earhart’s plane not near Gilbert Island. search efforts shift toward Howland and Phoenix Island areas.
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Honolulu
Amelia Earhart
South Pacific
Navy
Lexington
San Diego
Pacific Coast
Pearl Harbor
Phoenix
Gilbert Island
Miss Earhart
New Guinea
Howland Island
Itasca
Swan
Howland
Colorado
Phoenix Island
Miss Parhart
Frederick J. Noonan
Navy Department
Washington
South Seas
Naval
Rep
NYC Mayor Race Sets Two Camps In Open Campaign
New York City enters a two camp battle in a contested mayoral race as Democrats align with a New Deal vs anti New Deal split. Senator Royal Copeland emerges as Democratic support for the primary, while Grover Whalen gains Brooklyn Queens Richmond and the Bronx lines. The Republican side debates Copeland or a conservative opponent to defeat LaGuardia as the incumbent eyes both primaries.
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New York
New York City
Tammany Hall
Royal S. Copeland
Brooklyn
Queens
Richmond
Bronx
Grover Whalen
F. W. LaGuardia
Copeland
LaGuardia
Joseph Harvey Williams
Republican Committee
Nazi agitators are put in jail
Salzburg Austria July 17 55 Nazi agitators arrested accused of spreading rumors injuring Austrian tourist traffic Police said action needed in light of a friendship pact between Germany and Austria officials met in Vienna on the first anniversary of the accord pledging closer cooperation and studying ways to prevent irritations at the Austro German frontier city.
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Salzburg
Austria
Germany
Vienna
Roosevelt Backs Plan to Shield Workers From Machines
President Roosevelt endorsed a plan by a group of agencies to monitor new inventions and gauge their impact on national habits and the economy. The first tasks include studying cotton pickers, air conditioning, plastics, photo cells, synthetic fibers, prefabricated houses, television, and other machine age innovations. The effort follows a government study on machines and employment.
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Washington
Roosevelt
National Resources Committee
Moor Soldiers Killed in Attack near Madrid
Madrid reports the government says over 600 Moorish soldiers died in a dawn attack on lines near Villafranca Del Castillo, as heavy fire and artillery trapped the attackers. Air raids targeted insurgent airfields at Segovia and Talavera De La Reina while insurgents bombed the government base at Alcala De Henares.
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Madrid
Villafranca del Castillo
Segovia
Talavera de la Reina
Alcala de Henares
Man kills daughter in accidental shooting in Goldsboro
Coroner T. R. Robinson said a pistol held by Roscoe Thompson discharged accidentally, killing Thompson's four year old daughter Virginia in Goldsboro on July 17.
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Goldsboro
T. R. Robinson
Roscoe Thompson
Thompson
Virginia
Raleigh man robbed in Charlotte by two armed men
Police report that R. L. Little of Raleigh was held up by two armed Black men in Charlotte tonight and robbed of $26. The incident occurred on July 17 and is under investigation.
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Charlotte
R. L. Little
Raleigh
Roosevelt urges industry to share public responsibility
James Roosevelt urged industry to accept a public responsibility for the welfare of all citizens after an unemployment conference he called to craft relief plans. Albert Murray of the Associated Industries of Massachusetts questioned the plan's feasibility, while Roosevelt pushed for government relief reductions alongside private absorption.
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James Roosevelt
Boston
Albert N. Murray
Associated Industries of Massachusetts
Murray
Roosevelt
Telephone Company Manager Is Killed
Loris South Carolina July 17 Grier H Todd 60 telephone company manager was electrocuted last night when he lifted a high voltage wire to let a truck pass
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Loris
8. C
Grier H. Todd
Glance at Labor Strikes Sweep U S Metropolis
Labor action spreads across cities including Detroit Akron Massillon and Tacoma. Milk wagon drivers strike cuts one third of area supply while 2000 drivers and 35 terminals are tied up in Akron. Police arrest steel workers leaders in Massillon as federal indictments loom for obstruction. Marine and shipbuilding unions defer protest in New York as hearings begin on seamen wages. A West Coast woodworkers convention debates split from AFL CIO.
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Assoc Detroit
United Automobile Workers
General Motora
Akron
Massillon
Steel Workers’ Organizing Committee
New York
NEW York—— Marine and Shipbuilding Workers
City
Federal Maritime Commission
Tacoma
Wash
West
Man In No Hurry To Save Life
Roanoke Rapids North Carolina July 17 local residents hunted along river banks for the body of Macon Lynch who fell into the water while fishing. His son on the bank recounted Lynch sank rose gulped sank again and disappeared hours later the undertaker was called and Lynch reappeared claiming he had simply floated along and then bumped into a brush before reaching shore and sleeping.
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Roanoke Rapids
N. C
Macon Lynch
Lynch
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Warnel
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Hopen-C
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Tients
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Tokyo
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Chi
Tientsing
Barriea
Janese
Nanking
Foregin
Kalgan
Ch Kai-Shek
Human Relations Conference
High Pointer
Rayon
Earhart
Anti-New Deal
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