Neutrality Law Cannot Be Enforced Says Senator
Senator Lewis warned in Washington that enforcing the neutrality law now could drag the United States into war with China or Japan within an hour. He argued declaring one side at war would lead to American ships being seized and citizens imprisoned, forcing America to rescue its people and property with the navy. He noted current practice allows ships to trade unless goods are munitions of war.
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United States
China
Japan
Washington
Senate
Orient
America
Codona ends career after tragedy in Long Beach
Alfredo Codona renowned flying trapeze star shot his former wife during a meeting at a lawyer's office then killed himself. The Codonas troupe had endured prior deaths and injuries including his second wife Illian Leitzel.
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Long Beach
Calif
Alfredo Codona
Codona
Vera Bruce Codona
York
Arrest in long-ago murder of Chicago reporter
Roy G Ward 38 was arrested in Los Angeles on a bad check charge and named as a suspect in the 1929 murder of Alfred Jake Lingle in Chicago. Ward claimed he fired the fatal shot, but investigators found discrepancies between his account and the crime scene. Ward also uses alias names R Bradley and Frankie Fisher.
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Los Angeles
Roy G. Ward
Alfred
Jake) Lingle
Yypad
Fred
Ward
Lingle
Chicago
R. Bradley
Frankie Fisher
Trosper
Randolph Street
Michigan Avenue
Jap Parliament Told United States Will Not Apply Neutrality Measure
Tokyo July 31 AP reports Foreign Minister Koki Hirota told the Japanese parliament the United States did not intend to apply the neutrality law to the Sino Japanese military situation. Hull in Washington said no cause for action appeared, while ministers warned of rising tensions and planned to focus on war questions.
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Tokyo
Koki Hirota
United States
State Department
Hirota
Washington
Cordell Hull
Gen
Sugiyama
Japan
Nanking
Fumimari Konoye
Mitsumasa Yoma
Labor Board finds ballot rights denied in Maine shoe plants
The National Labor Relations Board ruled that recent elections by shoe workers in Lewiston and Auburn Maine did not grant the bargaining rights to the Committee for Industrial Organization.
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Boston
National Labor Relations Board Today
Lewiston
Auburn
Committee For Industrial Organization
Green May Not Be Reelected In AFL Rift
Opposition to William Green’s reelection grows in the American Federation of Labor as leaders fear the senate wage hour bill, with federation heads lobbying to delay action until next year. Green criticizes the draft as insufficient though seeks a best possible bill for Senate approval with hope for later House revision. Department heads press to push the bill back to committees.
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Washington
William Green
American Federaton of Labor
Senate
Federation
A. F. of T
Green
Senate Labor Committee
House
Weed Mart Off To Good Start In Valdosta
Tobacco growers in Georgia Florida bright leaf belt sold about one fifth of the 1937 predicted yield at opening week auctions establishing an average price around 25 to 26 cents per pound. The market closed firm after brisk two day sales with unofficial seven million pounds daily. Open prices were as expected and main offerings ranged from good to choice with some cutters. Prices satisfied growers and few rejections were reported. The opening average matched last year’s first week level by a little over a penny.
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Paul W. Casey
Southern Furniture Exposition
Chicago
Valdosta
Georgia- Florida
Agricultural Economics Bureau
Washington
Buyers Provide Lifting Power On N. Y. Market
Slow but persistent buying in motors and steels gave the New York stock market a lift in the final July session. Ford raised auto prices to offset costs, helping General Motors and Chrysler gain early. Steels rose on brighter profits and production prospects while farm implements oils and aviations advanced on higher demand. Transfers ran about 300000 shares.
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New York
Ford
General Motors
Chrysler
Table Buyer Wonders What Falls Will Bring
In Red Bank New Jersey Mrs. Joseph Fontana bought a wooden table with three legs. She reports sprouts and leaves growing from the legs and wonders how the table will respond when autumn arrives.
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Red Bank
NW. J
Joseph Fontana
Mia. Pontana
Burglars Rob Gary Cooper Home In Los Angeles
Burglars broke into film star Gary Cooper's palatial Los Angeles residence while he and his wife Veronica Balfe were away. A housekeeper awoke to the actor's dog. rooms were ransacked and jewelry valued over $18,000 reported, with losses possibly exceeding $25,000.
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Los Angeles
Gary Cooper
Cooper
Veronica Balfe
Coopers
Grip Tightens Over North China As Peiping and Tientsin Threatened
Japanese forces tighten ring around Peiping and push toward Tientsin, with heavy bombardment near the Central Railway station in Tientsin. Fighting erupts as Chinese gendarmes resist west of Peiping while 2,000 Japanese troops clash with the 37th division north-west of Peiping, and a Tungchow garrison fight leads to reports of possible danger to two Americans in the area.
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Associated Press
Japan
China
Hopeh
Peiping
Tientsin
Legation
Hsiyuan
Tungchow
Harry
Congress Asked for Farm Loans in 12 Cents Cotton Plan
Representative Dan R. McGehee of Meadville Mississippi urged Congress to authorize up to 500 million dollars in loans to cotton growers to guarantee 12 cents per pound. He said the bill would set conditions by the agriculture secretary and shield borrowers from deficits on collateralized government cotton, unless loan terms were breached. He noted no farm program action was expected this session.
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Washington
Dan R. McGehee
Meadville
Miss
Congress
McGehee
Secretary of Agriculture
NLRB Declines To Enter Row At Tygart Homesteads
Elkins West Virginia July 31 The National Labor Relations board declined to intervene in the four day old strike of cooperative farmers at the Resettlement administration s million dollar Tygart homesteads spokesman for the 98 strikers said the board referred his request for an investigation of mismanagement and waste back to the Resettlement administration for action Although strikers halted work on 24 homes and a Limestone plant in the 2500 acre community they offered to work without pay on the communal farm to save the crops
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Elkins
W. Va
National Labor Relations Board
Resettlement Administration
Tygart
Robert Z. Willson
Judge Seeks Discipline Over Ford Strike Officials
Common Pleas Judge Ralph W. Liddy urged the Dearborn safety commission to discipline or remove a police inspector a sergeant three patrolmen and a police matron after the Ford Motor Company and United Automobile Workers clash on May 26. The presentment cites misfeasance malfeasance and neglect of duty alleging officers stood by while protesters were abused and detained during the incident. Named are Inspector Charles W. Slammer Sergeant Jeff Dean Patrolmen Allen F B Wasser Fred Herman and Karene Snider and Police Matron Netta Hitchcock.
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Jude Ralph W. Ldddy
Dearborn Safety Commission
Ford Motoroa
United Automobile Workers
Liddy
Ford
Dearborn
Duncan ©. McCrea
The
Safety Commission
Charles W. Slamer
Jeff Dean
Mounted Division
Allen FB
Wasser
Fred Herman
Larene Snider
Netta Hitchcock
Terrorists Use Dynamite in Belfast Attack Tide
Belfast woke to dynamite blasts as terrorists mounted a fresh strike during King George's visit. A land mine near a police barracks injured Thomas Doherty and three companions, who were beaten. a wall card warned “Spies and police touts beware,” as police searched for extremists.
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Belfast
Northern Ireland
King George
West End
Ulster- Free State
Thomas Doherty
Doherty
Averill to Direct Raleigh Bureau in NC Daily
Henry Averill of Wilmington named successor to J. C. Baskervill as Raleigh bureau manager of the North Carolina Association of Afternoon Dailies. Baskervill resigns after eleven years and will assist Averill through next week. Averill to assume duties Monday, August 2. Baskervill will aid in learning routines and news sources.
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Raleigh
Averill
Enterprise
Enterprise Bureau
Sir Walter Hotel
J. C. Baskervill
North Carolina
Henry Averill
Wilmington
Mr. Averill
Summerville
D. C
Orange
Woodbury Forest School
Virginia Military Institute
Lex
Small Brooklyn Girl Strangled in Home, Crime Report
An eight year old Brooklyn girl, Paula Magagna of St. Aloysius school, was found dead in her home cellar two hours after going outside to play. Police report she was raped and strangled, with clothes line tied around her neck.
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New York
eAn
Brooklyn
Paula Magagna
St. Aloysius Catholic Parochial School
Rosenberg
Wyckoff Hospital
City of Baltimore Fire Claims Three Lives
A. L. Stephens said three men perished in the Steamer City of Baltimore fire over Chesapeake Bay as a federal inquiry opened. Two deaths were confirmed aboard the ill fated liner with six injured and about 900 aboard rescued by craft. bodies of J. B. Polikoff and Abel T. Whealton recovered, H. Paige found in New York, Cy Haynie believed dead. Captain Charles O. Brooks testified on his 19 years commanding the vessel.
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Baltimore
A. L. Stephens
Chesapeake Steamship Line
City of
Chesapeake Bay
Stephens
Federal Board of
Bay
J. 8. Polikoff
Aiken
Senate approves Copeland safety at sea bill after ship blaze
The Senate Commerce Committee backed the Copeland safety at sea bill and a passenger list filing measure. The Copeland bill, drawn by a committee on recent sea disasters including the Morro Castle fire, tightens ship construction to prevent sinking from minor collisions and to be as fireproof as possible.
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Washington
Senate Commerce Committee
Morroe Castle
New Jersey
License transfer granted to Piedmont Publishing Co
The communications commission approved the assignment of license to Piedmont Publishing Co. in Winston-Salem North Carolina, transferring duties from the Winston-Salem Journal Co. and marking a key regulatory action in July.
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Washington
the Communications Commission
Winston-Salem Journal Co
Winston-Salem
N. C
Piedmont Publishing Co
Grange Joins Labor in Fight Over Wage Hours Bill
The National Grange allied with labor representatives to oppose a bill setting six minimum wages and maximal hours. Senators planned a 3 p.m. EST vote, with Grange influence swayed against passage at the last moment despite some support from the American Federation of Labor. A separate motion by Senator Copeland on a lynching measure was also rejected.
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Washington
National Grange
Mittal
Fred Bren
Grange
Senate
William Green
Fede of Labor
Ator Copeland
D.-N
Ford Signals Beginning of Car Price Increase
Detroit July 31 Ford announces price hikes with a surprise move citing rising costs. General Motors and Chrysler may follow as industry observers note previously hinted increases by Alfred P Sloan. A $15 to $20 rise takes effect Monday on several 1937 passenger models while base prices stay the same.
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Ford Ompany
Ford
Automobile
General M
Chrysler
Alfred P. Sloan
General Motors
Forest Fires Costly Despite Protection
In Raleigh on July 31 Chief Warden W C McCormick reported June forest fires caused 31 000 dollars in damage burning over 14 acres. Careless smokers started 64 fires last month with 184 fires total. abnormal conditions raised burned area and damage per acre.
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Raleigh
In Forest Fire Control
W. C. McCormick
McCo
Federal Judge May Be Upped to Supreme Court
Washington rumor centers on Gov. Frank Murphy of Michigan as a possible successor to Justice Van De Venter. Administration officials note unrepresented circuits and discuss a jurist from a federal circuit, with Hutcheson and others previously mentioned as possibilities.
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Supreme Court
Frank Murphy
Michigan
van Dever
Supreme Bench
Hutcheson
Ration
Houston
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