Violence Flare At Republic Steel Plant In Cleveland
At least 20 injured in riot at Republic Steel Corp Corrigan-McKinney plant as 1,500 strikers and sympathizers clash with police. Twelve to fourteen arrests reported. a picket, Tom Glowacki, 51, critically injured when struck by a car near the plant. Police dispatched about 100 officers to clear entrances and the melee left two officers hurt. Mass protest followed as workers marched on city hall.
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Cleveland
Republic Steel Corp
Corrigan-McKinney
CID
Tom Glowacki
Rowley Oker
Matibida Maanos
Republican
City Hall
Japanese Airplanes Bomb North China Barracks Amid Ultimatum
Japanese military planes blasted barracks of the 38th Chinese army division in North China. Lieutenant General Kiyoshi Katsuki, the Japanese commander in North China, issued a fresh ultimatum as tensions mounted toward possible war.
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Associated Press
North
China
Kiyoshi Katsuki
Marco Polo Bridge
Peiping
Katsuki
37Th Division
Sung Cheh-Yuan
Charman
Hopeh
Japan
Minister jailed on charge tried to get FDR's money
Atlantic City August 26 A 47 year old minister William H West self styled thought wave projector and president maker was jailed after police charged he sent letters to President Roosevelt demanding a job or compensation for bringing about Roosevelts 1932 nomination West claimed he transmitted thought waves to sway voters during the Chicago convention crisis He said he helped elect Roosevelt and other officials by concentrating for 40 hours to win Al Smith delegates in Roosevelts favor.
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Atlanticity
N. J
William H. West
City Hall
Roosevelt
West
Chicago
Drexel Institute
University of Michigan
al Smith
Atlantic City
Death reveals identity of archi tect Neal Austin once famed in South
In Blythe California coroner Ben White identified an 87-year-old cotton mill worker found dead as Neal Austin known as Samuel Adams. The deceased left a gold watch with English arms an unfinished will in favor of Mary Odom of Durant Mississippi and blueprints for patented inventions. Odom, a Southern railroad official, confirms Austin as his uncle who disappeared 32 years ago after a career designing prominent Southern buildings.
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Blythe
Calif
Ben White
Samuel Adams
Mary Odom
Durant
Miss
E. G. Odom
Southern Railroad
Odom
Neal Austin
White
Austin
South
Two Die In Zebulon Car Crash at Bridge Abutment
In Zebulon ZPRUSON July 26 an automobile struck a bridge abutment killing Vernon Rhodes 22 of Bailey and Herbert Finch 28 of Stanhope. The bodies were found upright in the car.
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Zpruson
Here
Vernon Rhodes
Bailey
Herbert Finch
Stanhope
Senate drafting bill on lower court procedure
Chairman McCarran forecast a subcommittee draft to change lower court procedure, excluding receivership regulation to be handled separately. Ashurst may call full committee tomorrow if work finishes. Barkley sticks to wage hour bill schedule. Roosevelt vacancy on the Supreme Court discussed with LaFollette names floated.
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Washington
McCarran
D.nev
Senate Judiciary
Ashurst
D-Ariz
Barkley
Dky
Senate
Roosevelt
Supreme Court
Congress
Robert LaFollette
Senator Borah
R-Ida
LaPolette
Phil LaFollette
Wisconsin
Potomac
Justice van Devanter
LaFollette
Furniture Market Opens Strong In Final Week
The Midsummer Furniture and Rug Market enters its second and closing week with brisk business. Paul W. Casey, manager of the Southern Furniture Exposition building, says activity is opening up well as buyers from 10 states register by 10 AM, including Virginia and South Carolina.
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Midsummer
Paul W. Casey
Southern Furniture Exposition
Virginia
South Carolina
West Vir
Senate to take up wage hour bill this week
Congressional leaders arranged for immediate Senate consideration of the wage and hours bill as the session winds down. Senate calendar top item is Senator McCarran’s freight train length limit, with Majority Leader Barkley saying it could be postponed if needed to advance labor standards legislation.
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Senate
McCarran
Washington
Congressional
Dney
Barkley
Dky
Congress
Bank
Newspaper Guild Delays Vote On C I O Membership
The American Newspaper Guild granted its first membership referendum to decide if it stays with the C I O. The international executive board unanimously voted to delay until special committees in Washington Columbus and Dublin draft restated questions.
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New York
American Newspaper Guild Today
Guild
International
Washington
Train crash kills twelve in Tampico area
Twelve Mexicans died and 22 were injured when a train collided with a bus near Tampico. The dead include seven men, four women, and a child.
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Mexico City
Tampico
Harlem Welcomes Scottsboro Youths After Alabama Release
A throng at Pennsylvania Station roars as four Scottsboro youths Willie Roberson Olen Montgomery Eugene Williams and Roy Wright arrive with defense attorney Samuel Leibowitz. The crowd cheers their release after eleven trials and plans for vocational training or AAAP support follow.
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New York
Harlem
Pennsylvania Station
Scottsboro
Samuel Leibowitz
Leibowits
Scottsboro Boys
Olen Montgomery
Eugene Williams
Roy Wright
Leibowitz
American Association For the Advancement of the Colored People
Alabama
State Soil Conservation Office to Move to Raleigh
E B Garrett announces the Soil Conservation Service state headquarters will move from High Point to North Carolina State College Raleigh in the near future. Dr T B Buie directs the change and says the Deep River project continues under EF Erickson. Garrett, newly in charge, says High Point has been gracious and the move does not affect the Deep River project.
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Soil Conservation Office
North Carolina State College
Raleigh
Soil Conservation Service
High Point
E. B. Garrett
T. 8. Buie
Spartanburg
S. C
Department of Agriculture
Garrett
Buie
Mr. Garrett
J. H. Stallings
Stallings
Washington
Deep River
EF. T. Erickson
Fiddletown Elects Dave Rubinoff Mayor in Musical Inauguration
Fiddletown California elects Dave Rubinoff as mayor after his induction into office. He pledges a larger city hall, a yearly national concert for the town, a brass band and a fiscally disciplined administration. Inauguration was led by Frank C. Jordan with local officials and dignitaries present.
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Fiddletown
Calif
Dave Rubinoff
Rubinoff
United States
Frank C. Jordan
Amador County
Labor split deepens as CIO debunked at Salisbury meeting
Holt Ross of Atlanta, associate director of the AFL southern division, declared the CIO leadership discredited at the 31st annual state federation convention. He warned that continued CIO contract violations and illegal sit-down strikes could spur Congress to enact strict labor union laws.
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Salisbury
Holt Ross
Atlanta
Southern Division
American Federation of Labor
Committee For Industrial Organization
Ross
John L. Lewis
CIO
Congress
Fauntleroy Hero Dies After Saving Drowning Victims
Vivien Burnett aged 61, mother Frances Hodgson Burnett’s son, died of a heart attack after steering his yacht Delight III to rescue four people from a capsized sailboat in Manhasset Bay. He collapsed at the helm as the boat reached the dock.
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New York
Lord Fauntleroy
Vivien Burnett
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Manhasset Bay
Burnett
Lord Fauntieroy
Buffalo Food Strike Sparks Midwest Embargo Call
C I O regional organizer Hugh Thompson urged midwest union butcher crews to enforce a meat embargo on Buffalo to support 2000 striking food handlers seeking closed shop contracts. Longshoremen's and Switchmen's Union members joined by refusing to unload meats bound for Buffalo.
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Hugh Thompson
Midwest
Buffalo
Thompson
Longshoremen’s and Switchmen’s Union
American Federation of Labor
John P. Boland
State Labor Relations Board
Boland
Powerful Insurgent Attacks Near Madrid Roil Civil War Front
Government forces retreat on two fronts as insurgents strike near Brunete and Villanueva de la Cañada. The west of Madrid front shifts after Miaja’s troops pull back, with both sides massing strength for a pivotal battle that could open Madrid to a major assault. Villanueva, 18 miles from the capital, looms as a potential hinge in the communication lines of the wedge surrounding Madrid.
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Madrid
Villanueva de la Canada
Jose Miaja
Brunete
Villanueva
War debt to U.S. discussed in British press
London July 26. Labor MP William Leach will ask Sir John Simon in the House of Commons about a new settlement plan for Britain's war debt to the United States. A source close to Prime Minister Chamberlain called the discussion the silly season for such stories.
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London
Great Britain
United States
William Leach
John Simon
House of Commons
Neville Chamberlain
Negro Held in Bank HoldUp in Fayetteville
John Bann Lewis, a Black man, was held here today on a charge of participating in a $700 Bank of Bladenboro robbery last Friday. He is the sole suspect named in the early investigation of the Fayetteville incident.
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Fayetteville
John Bann Lewis
Bank of Bladenboro
State rest case in Norton assault trial at Greenfield
In Greenfield Massachusetts on July 24 the commonwealth rested after two witnesses in the assault case against Thomas E. Elder a 55 year old former Mount Hermon school dean. Norton’s wife testified he was badly scared the night of the alleged attack and Frank R. King a neighbor described a noisy car outside the home at about 10 15 to 10 25 p m supporting the state timeline.
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Frank R. King
Holyoke
Norton
King
Waterworks Plant Operators Meet in Raleigh
Operators of waterworks plants from across North Carolina gathered at North Carolina State College for their annual conference. Dr. W D Collins head of the water quality division of the United States Geological Survey addressed the gathering.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
N. C. State College
W. D. Collins
Quality of Water Division
United State Geological Survey
Dooling Death Quietly Shakes Tammany Ranks
James J. Dooling Tammany hall chieftain dies at 44 from a stroke at his Belle Harbor home. Funeral planned from his residence with a Holy Cross church memorial service. His death accelerates a bitter faction fight as Copeland and Whalen backers press for leadership changes in New York politics.
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New York
James J. Dooling
Tammany Hall
Belle Harbor
Queens
Dooling
Holy Cross Church
Tammany
New
U. S
Royal &. Copeland
New Deal Foo
New Deal
Grover A. Whalen
Deeling
Copeland
Sy Maries
Whalen
Fiorello H. LaGuardia
Christopher D. Sullivan
John J. Kelly
Long Dooling
Sullivan
Kelly
Washington
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Republic Mills
Tientsen
FDR
Maker
Zebulon
Marco Polo
Yungting
Nanking
North China
Decatur
Ala
Willie Roberson
SCS
Fiddletown Fiddles
Fauntleroy
Vivian Burnett
Buffalo Cio
New York State
Labor Relations Board
U.S
Thomas E. Elder
Massachusetts
Fusion Party
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