Bloodshed threat looms as steel strike across states escalates
Union leader Philip Murray warns of sinister and bloody acts as pickets confront steel plants from Youngstown to Chicago. Pickets drive food into a Republic Steel plant near Warren, sparking clashes with deputies. Court orders limit armed pickets and Gov Key seeks peace as 76 000 workers remain idle across seven states amid broader labor strife.
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Philip Murray
Youngstown
E Youngstown Sheet
Tubompany
Republic Steel Corp
Arren
Chicago
South Ohio
Warren
Republic
Edward Kelly
Feago
Key
Ohio
Michigan
Upper Peninsula
Newberry
Head of Pension Group Is Silent on Resignations
Chicago June 5 Dr Francis E Townsend faced questions after 12 major executives of his old age pension movement resigned en masse. J W Brinton announced the mass walkout along with 411 others criticizing Townsend over legislation tied to the Townsend plan. Resigned officials include Young Beeler Presson Sweeney Hall Johnson Hughes Hickman Stahl Owen McEvoy and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Francis FE. Townsend
J. W. Brinton
Townsend National Recovery Plan, Inc
Townsend Weekly
California
Gilmour Young
Gilman Beeler
Townsend National
Harry B. Presson
Townsend Club
Jeanne E. Sweeney
Women's Page
J. H. Hall
Weekly
Townsend Recovery Plan, Inc
Arthur N. Johnson
Washington Legislative Committee
T. W. Hughes
Walter D. Hickman
the Weekly
W. L. Stahl
Willis Owen
P. M. McEvoy
Washington
National
Brinton
German Catholicism Fights Back At Immorality Charges Of Nazis
Berlin reports indicate German Catholic leaders issued a pulpit statement to defend the church against Goebbels charging widespread priestly and lay immorality. They cite 25,635 priests in Germany with only 58 implicated, promising a large crowd at services as leaders break the silence since May 28.
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Berlin
Paul Joseph Goebbels
Germany
Goebbels
George Cardinal Mundelein
Chicago
McCarran Denounces Compromise Efforts As Face Saving
Washington reports on June 5 Senate leaders threaten to filibuster to exhaustion against any compromise that would increase the size of the Supreme Court. The exchange underscores sharp opposition to Roosevelt court expansion plans and signals no willingness to concede.
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McCarran
Supreme Court
Burke
Washington
Senate
Action Men
McCall
D-Nev
D-Neb
New 49
High Court
Borah R-Idah
Borah
Soviet Drive Against Spies Targets Japanese and German Consulates
Moscow reports reveal a government crackdown on foreigners deemed spies or wreckers, with a push to close several Japanese and German consulates. Pravda warns that Japanese and German spies are a major daily concern as May expulsions continue and July 1 is set for purge completion.
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Moscow
Soviet Union
Pravda
Communist Party
Russia
Japan
Germany
Britain seeks to salvage pact in Spanish civil war efforts
British diplomats on Saturday pressed to revive the non intervention pact with Germany and Italy after withdrawals. Eden and the two nations reportedly agreed on limited consultation before reprisals and security undertakings for neutral ships in Spanish waters. Basque forces reportedly repelled insurgent fire near Bilbao and Mount Lemona as Basque towns faced renewed attacks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Great Britain
Germany
Italy
Britain
Ign
Anthony Eden
Brin
Bilbao
Lemona
Hamlet Child Killed by Auto in New Brookland Crossing
In Columbia North Carolina on June 5 a nine year old boy White of Hamlet was killed instantly when struck by an automobile while crossing a street near New Brookland after stepping from a bus. He was the son of Mr and Mrs G Edward White and was with his older brothers G V and A at the time of the accident.
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Columbia, N. C
Oo" White
Ham N. C
New Brookland
G. Edward White
G. V
Rockefeller's Estate Reported At About 25 Million
White Plains New York June 5 The relatively small estate of John D Rockefeller Sr was valued at about 25 million dollars and may fall to 19 million after taxes The will filed for probate names granddaughter Margaret Strong de Cuevas and the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research as principal beneficiaries Rockefeller indicated in a codicil that he provided for other heirs earlier Much of his fortune earned from Standard Oil mines railroads and other enterprises was given to philanthropic institutions before his death May 23 at Ormond Beach Florida and remaining shares were distributed among family members
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White Plains
N. Y
John D. Rockefeller, Sr
Margaret Strong de Cuevas
Rockefeller Institute For Medical Research
Rockefeller
Standard Oiltrust
Ormond Beach
Fla
Famly
Northwestern Bank To Open For Business July First
The Northwestern bank with 3 million dollars in capitalization plans to open July 1 to serve Mitchell, Alleghany, Yancey, Watauga and Wilkes counties. Gurney P. Hood, state banking commissioner, approved the setup and the FDIC insured the bank.
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North Wilkesboro
Northwestern Bank
Mitchell, Alleghany
Yancey, Watauga
Wilkes County
Gurney P. Hood
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Ite Insurance
Spinsters Rally for Pension Age Cut to 55
In Hyde Park London a crowd of spinsters from across Great Britain urged a pension eligibility shift from 65 to 55. A delegation met Sir Kingsley Wood, the health minister, who declined the change citing cost.
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Condon
Hyde Park
Lon
No 1 Spinsters’ Pension Associa
Great Britain
West End
Kingsley Wood
Kingsley
Amelia Earhart Plans Takeoff From Fortaleza
Amelia Earhart rests at Fortaleza Brazil to adjust her round the world monoplane. She will fly 287 miles to Natal if weather holds then proceed on a 1900 mile trans Atlantic crossing to Dakar. She notes rudder control was variable and the system not fully satisfactory.
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Fortaleza
Brazil
Amelia Earhart
Natal
South America
Dakar
Senegal
Duke Commencement Week Opens with Day of Ceremonies
Duke University marks its 86th commencement with class day exercises alumni sessions and trustees meetings. Seniors host a luncheon while a baseball game trims faculty. Tomorrow centers on the university chapel with two services and two music recitals. President Few to give the baccalaureate address and Dr Sizoo to preach the commencement sermon.
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Durham
Duke University
University Board of Trustees
University
W. P. Few
Joseph Richard 8Sizoo
Collegiate Church of
St. Nicholas
New York
Lindbergh Sees Rocket as Promise for Faster Travel
Col Charles A Lindbergh praised Professor Robert H Goddards rocket research at Clark University as a potential path to speeds in transportation beyond hundreds of miles per hour. He compared Goddards work to Langley and Wrights early aviation milestones and noted rockets could send instruments to higher altitudes. His letter to Clark President Wallace W Atwood drew rapid replies from aviation figures.
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Worcester
Mass
Charles A. Lindbergh
Robert H. Goddard
Clark University
Clark
Lindbergh
Goddard
Langley
Wright
England
Wallace W. Atwood
Experimental Aeronautics
Sheriff Corbitt freed by Alabama Supreme Court
Alabama Supreme Court frees Sheriff J. L. Corbitt of Henry County on charges of negligence and cowardice in the lynching of Wes Johnson a 20 year old farm hand accused of assaulting a white woman. Johnson was taken from Abbeville jail February 1 hanged and shot by a mob estimated at 50 to 100. Three day impeachment trial named nine witnesses from the jail night.
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Montgomery
Ala
Alabama Supreme Court
J. L. Corbitt
Henry County
Wes Johnson
Abbeville
Ella Boole Praises Hitler at Open International Meeting
Dr. Ella A. Boole, noted as work president, is photographed during the opening of an international event where she lauds Adolf Hitler. The scene shows she drops her gavel with a bang as the gathering begins.
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Ella Boole
Hitler
Ella A. Boole
The
International
Adolf Hitler
Congress Plans to Stay in Session Through August
Roosevelt focused on major reforms as Congress likely remains in session into late summer. House leaders Bankhead and Rayburn said the President seeks action on Supreme Court revamping government agencies wage and hour standards and broader relief and reform measures.
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Congress
Washington
House
Roosevelt
Bankhead
Rayburn
Supreme Court
Strikers Rally Near Ford Plant Demanding Union Backing
In Detroit on June 5 a UAW rally gathered near Ford Motor's Rouge plant to protest beatings of union members and challenge an independent employee group. Homer Martin warned Ford would be driven from business and called for federal actions to disarm Ford thugs. An effigy of Ford and a Nazi swastika stood beside the speaker's stand.
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Detroit
Henry Ford
United Automobile Workers of America
Ford Motor Company
Rouge
Ford Workers
Homer Martin
Ford
Faselam
America
New Storm Threatens To Halt Search For Missing Air Ship
Alpine Utah June 5 searchers press on through snow drifts to solve the mystery of the Western Air Express transport missing since December 15. A new storm warning hangs over Lone Peak as clues are pursued, including an aspen grove hit by the airliner and a fragment of another letter from the lost craft.
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Alpine
Utah
Mighty Lone Peak
Western Air Express Transport
Aspen Grove
Big Plane Crashes In Landing But 15 Passengers Are Unhurt
Fifteen people escape injury after a Transcontinental and Western Air Transport plane crashes at Allegheny county airport. A wing strikes a speaker's stand near the administration building as the ship lands. Pilot Zimmerman reports a jammed rear wheel and a failed left motor while attempting a ground loop.
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Pittsburgh
Alleghany County
Zimmerman
Textile group names officers at South Carolina convention
June 5. The South Carolina Cotton Manufacturers Association closed its convention with election of officers and appointment of an executive board. Claudius T. Murchison of New York, president of the Cotton Textile Institute, Inc., presided. S. Marshall Beattie of Columbia and A. F. McKissick of Greenville were re-elected president and first vice president, and Walter S. Montgomery of Spartanburg was elected second vice president.
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High Hampton
Claudius T. Murchison
New York
Cotton Textile Institute, Inc
South Carolina Cotton Manufacturers Association
S. Marshall Beattie
Columbia
A. F. McKissick
Greenville
Walter
Montgomery
Spartanburg
Emsend
Tender Browning Elizabeth Letters Offered at Sothebys
Rare letters recount the Browning English poet lovers elopement from the Browning family home. The collection, preserved by Barrett family heirs, includes manuscripts up to Browning's death and is offered on June 5 in London by Sotheby’s.
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London
Oe Browning
Elizabeth
Tyranai
Sotherby’s
Ing
Col
H. P. Moulton-Ba
George and
Hel Barrett
Robert Browning
Finals Begin At University Chapel Hill Commencement
The 142nd class at the University of North Carolina will hold commencement exercises with President Paul Dwight Mad of Middlebury College delivering the baccalaureate sermon. Horace Williams awaits senior prayers, Dean House addresses seniors, and the alumni events mark the evening program. Herbert Agar of the Louisville Journal will give the commencement address as Governor Hoey administers diplomas.
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Chapel Hill
Paul Dwight Mad
Middlebury College
University of North Carolinas
Horace Williams
Tration
Nior
House
Ing
Exere
Kenan Stadium
Herbert Agar
Louisville
Cou Journal
Hoey
Science Winning In Battle Against Migraine Headaches
In Atlantic City on June 5 a New York physician reported the drug ergotamine tartrate offers great relief for migraine sufferers. Dr Harold Wolf said two years of successful use justify wider adoption as the drug constricts arteries and reduces carotid pulsations, cutting headache severity by 40 to 80 percent.
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Atlantic City
N. J
New York
American Neurological Association
Harold Wolf
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