Rayburn predicts three week adjournment for Congress
House majority leader Rayburn told lawmakers Congress can finish all legislative work in three weeks if there is no delay from the court bill in the Senate. He cited progress on wage and hour and housing bills and expected early Senate action this week.
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Washington
Rayburn
House
Congress
Senate
Snell
Roosevelt
House Labor Committee
Bankhead
Vermont Senator Attacks Labor Bill As Harmful To Agriculture
Senator Austin argues the Black Connery wage and hour bill would create a statutory labor monopoly and cause immediate economic losses. He says it would curb labor contracts and reduce workers ability to sell their hours, warning of broader harm to farmers and economic life.
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Washington
Austin
R-Vi
Senate
Chamber
Bilbo
Miss
NRA
Borah
Idaho
Steel Mills
Flames From Jap Airships Hit Tientsin Killing and Wounding Many
Japanese bombing of Tientsin killed and injured thousands of noncombatants. The assault aimed to aid a Chinese defense, with 10 000 Japanese in the concession, while Americans and other foreigners faced danger. The attack followed Boxer Protocol constraints cited by Japan.
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Associated Press
Tientsin
Kiyoshi Katsuki
North
China
Paul W. Caraway
Hattie W. Caraway
Arkansas
Peiping
Chang Tsu-Chung
Tokyo
Japan
Koki Hirota
Diet
Rivers and Harbors Fund Allocations Announced
Secretary Woodring approves 94.48 million in new rivers and harbors allotments for major projects nationwide. Funds go to the Mississippi river segment Minneapolis bound, Chesapeake and Delaware canal and more, plus Congaree river, Savannah harbor, and Savannah river improvements in the listed totals.
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Washington
Woodring
Mississippi River
Missouri River
Minneapolis
Chesapeake and Delaware Canal
Delaware
Maryland
Black Warrior
Warrior
Tygart River
W. Va
Congaree River
8. C
Savannah Harbor
Savannah River
Augusta
Progress Reported In Effort To Float Grounded Cruiser
The Navy Department said substantial progress was made in attempts to float the cruiser Omaha ashore at Castle Island light in the Bahamas. Captain Howard B. McCleary reported the ship moved 25 feet in the first attempt and 40 more feet last night.
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Washington
Navy Department
Castle Island
Bahamas
Howard B. McCleary
Fence and wire to curb suicides on Colorado Street Bridge
Pasadena dispatch reports progress on a seven and a half foot fence with barbed wire along the Colorado Street Bridge across the Arroyo Seco to stop suicides. The structure aims to reduce the toll of 79 leaps attributed to the bridge in recent years.
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Pasadena
Calif
Colorado Street
Arroyo Seco
Federal Job Goes Begging In Town
AMANTHA July 29 AP A federal job has gone begging in this small Watauga county town. The Post Office Department announced today that since there had been no applications for it the office would be discontinued.
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Amantha
Watauga County
Post Office Department
Market reports solid demand at midsummer furniture show
Registrations reached 2220 by 10 am with two market days left buyers from Florida Georgia Mississippi Virginia South Carolina and West Virginia attended Early week buyers stayed to place orders Furniture novelties show strong sales rugs attract interest with varied patterns and new lines noted Paul W Casey calls the market very satisfactory overall
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Florida
Georgia
Mississippi
Virginia
South Carolina
West Virginia
Paul W. Casey
Eden Receives Assurances From Japan On British in China
Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden told the House of Commons that Britain had made representations to Japan regarding the safety of its nationals in China and had received certain assurances.
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London
Anthony Biden
Commons Today
Great Britain
Japan
China
Union Drivers End Eight Day Buffalo Strike
Union drivers in Buffalo back on duty after an eight day strike secured wage increases and a preferential shop from 44 Buffalo wholesale provision dealers. The stoppage worsened shortages as housewives faced higher prices and limited foods. Negotiations continued with union butchers over supply impacts at three packing plants and a demand for a closed shop or up to 25 percent raises.
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Buffalo
Teamsters
American Federation of Labor
Buffalo Wholesale Provision
Cc. L. O
Iron Exports Blamed As Encouragement To Nations Bent On War
Senator Bridges of New Hampshire testified to a Senate military subcommittee that continued exports of scrap iron and steel from the United States encourage war. He argued that the nations with the largest armament programs are the biggest buyers of these shipments.
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Washington
Bridges
United States
Senate
Johnson Chosen Prison Director At $6000 Salary
The Highway and Public Works Commission unanimously elected Robert Grady Johnson of Burgaw as director of prisons and recommended a $6,000 yearly pay. Johnson will start September 1, with Oscar Pitts retained as acting director. He was absent due to a Burgaw trial.
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Johnson
Raleigh
The
Highway and Public Works Commission
Robert Grady Johnson
Burgaw
Oscar Pitts
Asid. Johnson
Japan vows to reject outside interference in Sino-Japanese war
Tokyo reports Koki Hirota telling the diet that Japan will summarily reject any third power involvement in the Sino-Japanese conflict. War Minister Gen Sugiyama says clearing Chinese troops is easy but a clash with the central Chinese army could follow.
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Tokyo
Koki Hirota
Japan
Diet
France
Russia
Germany
Liaotung Peninsula
China
Shimonoseki
Gen Sugiyama
Tientsin
War Office
Labor to Open Regional Offices in Charlotte
The American Federation of Labor will open a regional head quarters in Charlotte next Thursday to supervise its campaign for new memberships and unions. The decision was made at a post convention session of the North Carolina Federation of Labor in Salisbury. Harry L. Boate of Charlotte was chosen to direct the bureau. The state federation re elected all officers with a single change on the executive board YY. L. Causey of Greensboro replaced W. F. Moody of Raleigh.
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Charlotte
Jay
American Federation of Labor
North Carolina Federation of Labor
Salisbury
Harry L. Boate
YY. L. Causey
Greensboro
W. F. Moody
Raleigh
Loyalist commander killed as Madrid defense continues
Spanish insurgent authorities report the so called Russian commander of an international brigade was killed defending Madrid and the foreign chief of the fourth international brigade captured with his general staff. Reports say a new offensive against Santander is imminent as Franco forces push toward Cuenca and Madrid Valencia road lifeline.
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Hepndaye
Madrid
Arubensco
Fourth International
Santander
Bay of Buscay
Francisco Franco
Teruel
Cuenca
Madrid- Valencia
Albarrican
Valencia
Mediterranean
Buzzard Roost power case heads to appeal court
The U S Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals will convene a recessed term in Asheville to hear Buzzard Roost power case arguments starting Tuesday. Senior Judge John T. Parker will preside with Circuit Judges Northcott and Soper joining. Duke Power appealed a federal judge’s ruling related to a $2.8 million PWA grant and loan for Greenwood County hydroelectric project in South Carolina.
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Asheville
U. S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals
John T. Parker
Charlotte
Elliott A. Northcott
Huntington
W. Va
Morris A. Soper
Baltimore
Duke Power Company
J. Lyles Glenn
Rock Hill
8. C
PWA
Greenwood County
Farmers Hold Field Day At Test Farm
Farmers from many counties gathered at Oxford for the 15th annual field day of the state department of agriculture's test farm. Speakers included Attorney General A. A. F. Seawell Agricultural Commissioner W. Kerr Scott Miss Ruth Currant and state home demonstration agent.
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Oxford
State Department of Agriculture
A. A. F. Seawell
W. Kerr Scorr
Atate Home Demonstration
Senate orders probe into American Cotton Cooperative Association
The Senate Agriculture Committee begins a formal inquiry into the American Cotton Cooperative Association. It will study its grading and marketing of federally financed cotton, profits and losses to farmers, and the group's leadership and finances. The panel may spend up to 109000 dollars.
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Washington
Senate
American Cotton Cooperative Association
Senate Agriculture Committee
American Cotton Cooperative
Commodity Credit Corporation
Cotton Producers Pool
Senator McKellar
D.-Tenn
Smith
Agriculture Committee
Regatta Set by Carolina Yacht Club at Wrightaville
Southport reports the annual regatta of the Carolina Yacht Club of Wrightaville will be held here in August with clubs expected to compete in several races. Local organizers announce entries and schedule as preparations begin.
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Southport
Carolina Yacht Club of
Wrightaville Re
Second Quarter Earnings Rise Over Last Year
New York July 29 Second quarter earnings of 168 reporting companies rose 13 percent from a year earlier to 345 402 318. Gains were led by steel, while General Motors and Chrysler faced large declines due to strike delays and rising costs.
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New York
Associated Press
Toy
General Motors
Chrysler
Republic Steel
Youngstown Bsheet and Tube
Truscon
Inlandates
American Furniture Company offers shares from Martinsville plants
The American Furniture Company, operating five plants in Martinsville, Virginia, announces public offerings of 100 541 shares at start price 5 50. Underwriters Hartley Rogers and Company and Scott Horner and Mason, Inc. report five month sales to April 30 1937 totaling 1 097 314 with net income of 149 555, up from 41 911 a year earlier.
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Richmond
American Furniture Company
Martinsville
Hartley Rogers and Company
New York
Scott, Horner and Mason, Inc
Lynchbore
Concord Man Takes His Own Life, Coroner Says
Coroner N. J. Mitchell today ruled that Adolphus J. Lomax 48 a textile worker shot himself. Lomax body was found in the yard of his home with a rifle beside him. Family said he had been in ill health. Funeral held today.
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Concord
N. J. Mitchell
Adolphus J. Lomax
Lomax
Lemax
Automobile Dealer Killed In Accident Near Spartanburg
Spartanburg South Carolina July 29 D G O Dell vice president and sales manager Harris Motor company was killed in an auto truck collision on the Cheenee road four miles above Cherokee Springs. His car struck a truck loaded with peaches on a curve while returning from a business trip to Chesnes.
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Spartanburg
8. C
D. G. O’dell
Harris Motor Company
Cheenee Road
Cherokee Springs
O'Dells
Chesnes
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