Mobs and Mills Resume as Steel Strike Spreads
Republic Steel resumes Monroe plant operations after a tear gas attack. CIO-backed actions spur picket lines and a wider walkout as Bethleham Steel units join the effort. In Mansfield, the cotton mill reopens with patrols and witnesses before a federal labor board, as workers return amid pickets and tense scenes.
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Michigan
Associated Press
Republic Steel Corporation
Monroe
Mich
CIO
Columbus
Ohio
Martin L. Davey
Washington
Cleveland
Steel Workers Organizing Committee
Mansfield Cotton Mill
Labor Relations Board
Lumberton
Mansfield
Textile Workers Organizing Committee
Federal Labor Relations Board
Abductors Of Woman Maintain Silence In New Plea
In Stony Brook New York June 11 the husband and a wealthy relative appealed for privacy as they pursue contact with alleged kidnappers holding widow Mrs Alice McDowell Parsons a prominent Long Island heiress.
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Stony Brook
N. Y
Relati
Alice McDowell Parsons
Leland
Tron
Mail and ransom drama grips missing man case
McDowell, brother of a missing man, appeals as rain drenches the north countryside. Federal agents and J Edgar Hoover coordinate from Washington while a Long Island Sound seaplane anchors nearby. A coast guard craft and a landing man named Hoover are reported as the investigation advances through the night.
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Brook Village
Federal
J. Edgarer
Fromington
Coast Guard
Long Island Sound
Hoover
W H. Parsons
Abdu Eves
Tam
Mill Is Loser In Labor Case At Mooresville
The National Labor Relations Board ruled Mooresville Cotton Mills must reinstate eight workers with back pay for being not re employed after a 1935 strike. It found they were refused employment for supporting Local No. 1,221, United Textile Workers of America. The company must cease and desist from discharging membership.
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Washington
National Labor Relations d
Ooresville Cotton Mills
Mooreslie
N. C
United Textile Workers of America
Ion
Russia Granted Flight Permit for Soviet Aviator Route
Washington reports the state department granted a Soviet aviator a permit to fly over U.S. territory. The planned route from the Soviet Union to San Francisco via the North Pole was halted in 1935 by medical difficulties faced by pilot Sigmund Levanevesky.
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Washington
State Department
Anu
Moscow
San Francisco
Pole
Sigsmund Levanevesky
Bears Rule On Stock Market
New York wires report a down day with leading issues slipping one to two points and trading at a crawling pace. High grade bonds and secondary loans lagged while commodities mostly fell. Jal Motors hit a new yearly low, deepening market gloom in the district.
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New York
Jal
Jal Motors
City Is Rocked By Earth Shock
Anaheim California residents endured a sharp earth shock that rattled homes and rattled dishes and furniture but caused no serious damage. Reports indicate movement was felt across the riding territory as residents checked for damage.
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Anaheim
Calif
Robbery of D. E. Cannaday Halts Early Drive
Police sought a hitchhiker who robbed D. E. Cannaday of his car and $11 in front of the city lake at 9:15 this morning after picking up the man near Five Points. Wade Mariette pursued in Cannaday’s car toward Greensboro, with the suspect turning toward Guilford College and Winston-Salem.
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D. E. Cannaday
Edeedale Drive
City Lake
Cannaday
Leaksville
Wade Mariette
Greensboro
Guilford College
Winston- Salem
Studio Strike Ends After 42 Days of Turmoil
Hollywood reports a satisfactory agreement ending a 42 day strike by major film studio craftsmen. Makeup artists, hairdressers, and scenic artists voted to return to work amid production delays and a near walkout by the Screen Actors Guild.
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Janeti
Screen Actors’ Guild
Ters
Makeup Artista
Antiveean and
Threat Sent To President Roosevelt Plea In Alderman Case
James C. Smith a 40 year old man was jailed in Albany after pleading to a charge of sending threatening letters to President Roosevelt. He was arrested yesterday on a Treasury Department warrant filed by operative James F. Johnson and remained held on $5,000 bail.
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N. Y
James C. Smith
Albany County
United States
Lester T. Hubbard
Roosevelt
Hubbard
Smith
Treasury Department
James F. Johnson
Berry Named for First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt
Dr. Charles Dearing announced at Wallace's strawberry festival that prize strawberries developed from Fairfax and Missionary varieties will bear the name Eleanor Roosevelt. The First Lady, visiting Wallace, approved naming the berries during the coastal plains experiment farm event.
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Wallace
Eleanor Roosevelt
Charles Dearing
Coastal Plains Experiment Farm
Fairfax
Youths Told War Is Useless at North Carolina Conference
Dr. Carl V. Reynolds state health officer told the Older Farm Youth Conference at N C State College that war is absolutely useless and an insult to the intelligence of the present generation. He noted one third of men in the last war were physically unfit and urged health funding, saying less than one percent of tax money goes to public health work.
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Raleigh
Carl V. Reynolds
Older Farm
N. C
Greenville firm wins contract for Enka warehouse
Office of the America Enka Corporation announced that Potter and Shackelford of Greenville, S. C., received the award to construct a warehouse on a low bid of 37 958 dollars.
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ENKA
America Enka Corporation
Potter and Shackelford
Greenville
8. C
Tax Dodgers On Spot as Treasury Unveils Secret List
Treasury officials disclosed a compiled secret list of wealthy individuals who allegedly dodged federal taxes. Officials expect congressional hearings to reveal names next week with possible public disclosure and testimony for those named.
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Washington
Treasury
Resolution signed for broad congressional tax inquiry
President Roosevelt signed a resolution authorizing a joint six senator six representative committee to probe tax dodging. Rep Fish urged examining Roosevelt's income tax return claiming losses from the Hyde Park estate were deduction as a farm.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Fish
House
Hyde Park
Bodies of two anti-Fascist newspapermen found
In Bagnoires France two men who called themselves Italian anti fascist journalists were found dead in a forest near an overturned car. Police found an improvised bomb trace and a blood trail. The bodies lay one atop the other with a dagger nearby.
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Bagnoles
France
First Wally Simpson Registered in North Carolina
In Raleigh on June 1 the vital statistics bureau records the state’s first Wally Simpson a boy. He resides in Medmont city but officials keep the address secret to protect his privacy.
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Raleigh
Colts
Vital Statistics Bureau
Wally Simpson
Wally
Medmont
First Lady at Berry Festival Arrives in Town
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt attended the annual strawberry festival as guest of honor in a town greeting by an army band from Fort Bragg and spectators of about 3,000. She arrived early and visited Mrs. J. D. Robinson with Governor Hoey.
Murphy declines candidacy for supreme court seat
Senator Prentiss M. Brown of Michigan said Governor Frank Murphy has refused to be considered a candidate for appointment to the supreme court. Murphy’s name had been mentioned as Associate Justice Willis Van Devanter notified President Roosevelt of his retirement.
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Washington
Prentiss M. Brown
Michigan
Frank Murphy
Supreme Court
Willis van Devanter
Roosevelt
Japs Seek Large War Budgets In 1938 Plan
Tokyo reports the Japanese army will request 900000000 yen and the navy 800000000 yen for the 1938 budget to offset armaments for the Soviet Union and China. The requests would total more than half of the next budget, reflecting the rising military expenditure.
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Tokyo
Soviet Union
China
Furniture Men Hear About Proposed Wage Hours Law
In Mayview Manor on June 11 the Southern Furniture Manufacturers Association held a well attended session discussing the Connery Black wage and hours bill and other legislation affecting business operations. Winston-Salem lawyer W. M. Hendren warned that current trends threaten state socialism and urged a fair national labor policy for all industry balancing justice from labor and management.
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Mayview Manor
WN. C
Southern Furniture Manufacturers Association
W. M. Hendren
Winston-Salem
America
Hendren
Prizefighter Doyle Linked to Interview Before U S Trip
The Daily Mail ties prizefighter Jack Doyle to a pre voyage interview stating he intends to marry a wealthy American widow with a fortune in tobacco. Doyle expects a handsome brunette widow as his wife.
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London
The
Daily Mail Today
Jack Doyle
Bines
Doyle
United States
Florida Methodist conference backs North South church unification
Florida Southern Methodist churchmen at their annual conference adopted resolutions favoring unification of the northern and southern Methodist denominations in America. The Florida group was the first southern conference to act on the measure, already approved by several northern conferences.
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Petersburg
Fla
Florida Southern Methodist
America
Florida
Mrs Roosevelt to Speak at Goldsboro Festival appearance
Rep Graham A Barden announced Mrs Franklin D Roosevelt would give a single platform speech in Goldsboro tonight during her visit to Wallace's annual Strawberry Festival. He said she would not speak at any other point en route to Washington.
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Graham A. Barden
Third
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Wallace
Goldsboro
Washington
Steamer Stands By To Evacuate Juneau Residents
In Juneau Alaska on June 11 the steamer Jeanne remained at Tulsequah ready to remove 200 residents if Taku River floodwaters rise further. Pilot Alex Holden reported nearly every home surrounded by water as authorities prepared for possible evacuation.
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Juneau
Alaska
Jeanne
Tulsequah
Taku River
Alex Holden
Mills Contract Awarded For Glen Raven Addition
June 11 report states the contract for an addition to the Glen Raven Cotton mills was awarded to H. F. Mitchell Jr. of Burlington. The announcement confirms the project progress and the contractor’s identity.
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Glen Raven
H. F. Mitchell, Jr
Burlington
France Proposes Peace Plan to End Spanish Civil War
France drafts a non intervention peace plan to reinforce the arms and foreign fighter ban in Spain, withdraw foreign troops, and mediate between the republic and insurgents. London sources say Germany and Italy are nearing return to the committee to enable a patrol and France’s plan.
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Associated Press
France
Germany
Italy
Spain
London
Senate panel rejects probe into Berry eligibility
The senate elections committee refused a request to investigate Senator Sherry of Tennessee over alleged moral turpitude. The petition, filed by H. Carlyle Lowry of Maryville, sought to disqualify Berry from holding office.
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Washington
Senate Elections Committees
Sherry
D-Tenn
H. Carlyle Lowry
Maryville, Tenn
Berry
Belgian Premier Leaves For U S
Belgian premier Paul van Zeeland left Brussels for the United States to discuss international trade with President Roosevelt. He will sail from Cherbourg tomorrow after the government passed an amnesty bill for war traitors despite veteran opposition.
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Brussels
Paul van Zeeland
United States
Roosevelt
Cherbourg
Texas to become navy training ship at Norfolk
The U S Texas, already a long time flagship and 23 year veteran of the U S battle fleet, left San Pedro for Norfolk today to take on a training ship role.
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San Pedro
Calif
U. S
Texas
United States Battle Force
Norfolk
Master Barbers Seek Little NRA Support
Charlotte Chapter of the Master Barbers Association, led by President B. M. Crawford, will urge the next general assembly to pass a modest NRA measure for the barbering industry.
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Charlotte
B. M. Crawford
Master Barbers Association
General Assembly
Licensing Board Meeting Set for July 4 in Raleigh
The North Carolina licensing board for contracts announces its quarterly meeting will be held in Raleigh on July 4. The notice specifies the date and location for interested parties and registrants.
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Raleigh
North Carolina Licensing Board For
Three Way Tie In U S Open Graft
Slammin Sam Snead shared the pace setting at the halfway U S Open after a 73 in round two. He joins Light Horse Harry Cooper and Frankie Strafaci at 142 after 36 holes in Birmingham Michigan with Cooper 72 70 and Strafaci 70 72.
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Birmingham
Mich
Sam Snead
White Sulphur Springs
W. Va
Snead
Harry Cooper
Chicago
Frankie Strafaci
Brooklyn
Cooper
Strafaci
Death Bomb Basis for Suit Filed in Cape Charles
The death of Curry Thomas aged 47 from a bomb sent as a wedding gift prompts a $10,000 damage suit. Mount Airy lawyers represent Francis C. Thomas against the estate of Dr H R Hege of Mount Airy, who killed himself in an Fastville jail days after being charged with the bombing.
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Thomas
Dodgers Trade For Fred Fitzsimmons In Giants Swap
Brooklyn Dodgers acquire Fred Fitzsimmons from the New York Giants in exchange for Tom Baker a 22 year old right hander and a sum of money not announced.
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New York
Brooklyn Dodgers Today
Tom Baker
New York Giants
Fred Fitsesimmons
Funds Asked For Army Work In North Carolina
The War Department civil functions bill introduced today carries 60 000 for new river and harbor projects in the Carolinas as their share of a total budget of 90 822 101 for this work.
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Washington
War Department
Carolinas
Eight top Soviet officers face treason trial in Moscow
Moscow reports a secret military tribunal charged eight top war lords with high treason and conspiring with a foreign power. Marshal Mikhail Tukhachevsky and seven others faced immediate conviction without appeal as the third treason trial this year. The previous year saw 16 executed after treason trials.
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Moscow
Soviet Union
Michail Nikolaevitch
Hachevaky
Shen
Volga
Tukhachev
Kazimirovitch
V. Pull
Man Attacked by Union Worker at Fisher Body Plant
PONTIAC Michigan June 11 R Leeder manager of Fisher body plant here says a union employee threw a union worker into a tar like substance at the plant last night and threatened further action against the unidentified man The substance held about 40 gallons and the victim was submerged two feet in the tar like liquid what remained unclear in the brief report.
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Pontiac
Mich
R. Leeder
Fisher Body
Hiate
Leeder
Georgia seeks federal aid to curb illegal liquor
Atlanta dispatch reports Georgia voters backed a move to curb illegal liquor. State Revenue Commissioner directs action to federal authorities as the state asks the federal alcohol administration for enforcement help.
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Atlanta
Georgia
State Revenue Commissionrady
Amelia Earhart Heads For Fort Lamy Leg of World Flight
Amelia Earhart landed in Port Lamy French West Africa to complete a 1000 mile leg of her around the world flight. She lifted off at 1 15 A M and headed toward Fort Lamy in Lake Chad country with a plan to rest there before continuing toward Khartoum. The journey began June 1 in Miami and route follows Sudan area paths over Africa.
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French West Africa
Amelia Earhart
Gao
Fort Lamy
Lake Chad
French Equatorial Africa
United States Airway
Sudan
Tral Africa
Khartoum
Miami
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