German and Italian Warships Withdraw from Spanish Coasts
German and Italian warships left the Spanish coast on their own accord amid fears the move signals a punitive action against Madrid. Britain and France considered naval measures, while Spain faced cabinet turmoil and autonomous Catalan tensions as Basque resistance intensified on the northern front.
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Brithat
Spain
Leipzig
Om Paris
England
Imany
Russia
Britain
Nce
Valencia
Autonomous Cata
Ronment
Ane
Martian Drought Observed by Mt Wilson Astronomers
From Mt Wilson, researchers led by Dr Wal S Adams and Theodore Dunvr report a severe Martian drought, with dark equatorial spots suggesting vegetation in canal-fed regions. Nevil Sidgwick explains possibility of life as chemists note lack of water vapor in prior studies.
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Enver
Midwest Bowl
African Sahara
Iican Association
Secience
Wilson
Wal- S. Adams
Theodore Dun_ vr
Nevil V. Sidgwick
F. R
Oxfordersity
England
E Mt. Wilson
French Fleet Drops Anchor Off Algeria After Night Maneuvers
Paris reports a Mediterranean squadron led by two cruisers anchored near Algeria south of a Mediterranean island after secret maneuvers at night. The fleet includes two heavy ships four destroyers and five gunboats and moved in step with coast defenses and infantry units along the French far coast.
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Paris
Algeria
Mediterranean
Enia
France
Movete
Spain
Dedication Night for Uptank Tribe in Elizabeth City
Harvey O. Burnett of Harris Pa will speak at the dedication of the Uptank tribe’s new building in Elizabeth City tonight. The project cost $25,000 and marks a significant cohesion within the order of Red Men.
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Plizabeth City
Harvey O. Burnett
Harris Pa
Ed Order of Red Men
John Gifford's Father Killed in Salem Murder Case
Police report that John Gifford's father was shot to death in Salem South Dakota around January 17 1928. Chief W G Friddle says state attorney H McCay furnished the information. Gifford is jailed after claiming he is wanted for four murders including his father.
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John Gifford
South Dakota
Salem
W. G. Friddle
H. McCay
Dalian Hawan Hua
Gifford
Hopkins plans large relief cuts to 1.66 million rolls
Washington reports Harry Hopkins will cap relief rolls at 1,655,477 within 12 months as part of a $1.5 billion relief package. Cuts come from not replacing workers who find private jobs and checking ineligible lists. Congress has passed relief bills and a joint committee is to resolve minor differences.
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Washington
Harry Hopkins
Congress
Works Administration
Hopkins
House
Senate
Matten Plans Moscow Flight
Jimmy Mattern, the American aviator, plans a nonstop Oakland to Moscow flight after returning by plane from Burbank. The aircraft, built in Burbank with a 5000 mile cruising radius, cost $100000. Mattern previously crashed during a solo around the world attempt in 1933 in Central Siberia.
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Oakland
Calif
Jimmy Mattern
Moscow
Burbank
Mattern
Siberia
Three Killed as Trains Crash in Fog
Rio de Janeiro reports three dead and over 80 injured when a suburban passenger train crashed into the rear of another in dense fog. Both trains carried commuters. fog blamed for the collision.
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Rio DE Janeiro
Doctor Threatened in Easter Murder Case Probe
Doctor George Etling a Rockland State hospital physician received threats by telephone and telegram. Police Chief Fred Kennedy said Etling, a psychiatrist who treated Robert Irwin the suspect in the Easter Sunday murder case involving Veronica Gedeon, her mother and a lodger, is in a nervous state amid the messages.
Chautemps Cabinet Sets Stage for Spending Cuts and Tax Decrees
Paris June 24 Camille Chautemps new cabinet held its first meeting and said to refrain from seeking full financial powers refused by parliament. He plans authority to cut expenditures and levy taxes by decree but will not seek virtual dictatorship over finances or decree power for banking and exchange supervision. France awaits finance minister Georges Bonnet to tackle the problems.
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Paris
Camille Chautemps
Leon Blum
Chautemps
Blum
France
Georges Bonnet
Ohio Sympathy Strike Ends as Plants Close
In Ohio the sympathy strike ends with five Warren and Niles plants closed after C I O unions abandon plans for a general walkout. Brainard Steel American Welding and Niles Steel Products report curtailments amid unclear union actions and recent injunctions at Republic Steel Warren.
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Warren
Niles
Brainard Steel Company
J. ©. Manternach
American Welding and Manufacturing Co
F. R. Schaffer
Niles Steel Products Company
Co. I. O
Republic Steel
van Huffel Tube Corpora
Workers to form independent union at Mansfield mills
James R. Nance, Lumberton attorney, reports a movement among Mansfield cotton mills workers to form an independent local union. About 175 workers met at the Robeson county courthouse and planned the organization, as 300 Mansfield employees are said to have signed on. Nance will seek a charter in Raleigh for the Golden Star Textile Organization of East Lumberton.
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Lumberton
James R. Nance
Mansfield Cotton Mills
Earle Lifts Martial Law in Johnstown Zone
Governor George H. Earle announced the end of martial law in the Johnstown strike zone effective 7 a m Friday. He noted the emergency appeared passed after the Bethlehem steel mill closure ordered by the strike committee.
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George H. Earle
Johnstown
Earle
Bethlehem Steel
Committee For Industrial Organization
FDR Urged to arbitrate steel strike by Murray
Philip Murray chairman of the Steel Workers Organizing Committee proposed that steel strike issues be turned over to President Roosevelt for arbitration. He told a Cleveland press conference that they are willing to accept the President as final arbiter in all disputes.
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Philip Murray
Steel Workers Organizing Committee
Roosevelt
United States
Tiie
Senate Post Office Committee
Tom Girdle
Republic Steel Corporation
Steel Workers Org Committee
Republic
SWOC
Guy T. Helvering
Hoe
Local Youths Charged in Robbery at Johnson City
Two High Point youths Clade Hamilton and Marvin Sales were en route to Johnson City Tenn with officers who hold warrants for robbery and assault. Police say they may be the suspects in the Saturday night attack on Henry Collins and G A Stout near Johnson City, during which victims were robbed, beaten and their shoes were taken. Stout identified Sales as involved in the crime and the pair were linked to the assault at a dance hall rear area about a mile from Johnson City.
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Clade Hamilton
Marvin Sales
Johnson City
Tenn
Tennessee
Henry Collins
G. A. Stout
Stout
Sales
Collins
Town to buy power lines in Lumberton for 1800 dollars
Town officials announced the purchase of power lines serving 103 customers in Lumberton from George W. West for $1,800. The transaction was finalized today and will extend service to area residents.
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BUY Power Lines
Lumberton
George W. West
Mayor seeks federal aid to reopen Youngstown steel mills
Mayor Lionel Evans telegraphed President Roosevelt and Gov. Davey asking aid to end the strike. Three Youngstown Sheet and Tube plants and one Republic Steel plant are idle over refusal to sign with the steel workers organizing committee. Ohio guardsmen keep the status quo as federal mediators in Cleveland seek peace.
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Youngstown, CO
Lionel Evans
Roosevelt
Martin L. Davey
Ohio
Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co
Republic Steel Corporation
Steel Workers Organizing Committee
Davey
Ohio National Guardsmen
Cleveland
Veterans to Convene in Durham for NC War Veterans Meet
The annual convention of the United Spanish American War Veterans of North Carolina will be held here July 11 13. The meeting gathers veterans from across the state for their statewide gathering and activities.
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Durham
United Spanish-American War Veterans of
North Carolina
Fiend Fires Rooming House in Cincinnati
Fire Chief Barney J. Houston labels a fiend with a distorted mind as responsible for a rooming house blaze in Cincinnati that killed one man, burned four others, and endangered 35 inmates. The latest fire brings total rooming house, hotel and tenement blazes to 28 in 18 months, with three previous deaths. Victim C. F. Williams, 60, died in bed. two elderly men were among those injured escaping.
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Cincinnati
Barney J. Houston
Houston
C. F. Williams
Ifir
Escaped Convict Caught By Police In Greensboro
Greensboro dispatch reports Nance Walker of High Point identified as an escaped convict. He was picked up at the Southern depot and claimed he walked out of the State Sanatorium last Tuesday alleging poor treatment. Walker said he had served 1% of a four to five year sentence for breaking and entering and was found with a pint of whiskey.
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Greensboro
Nance Walker
High Point
Southern
Walker
Stock market gains on copper and steel amid war news
New York June 24. A massing German warship fleet and Portugal relief injected life into the stock market today. Copper futures and shares abroad gained fractions to around a point while the rest of the list moved irregularly higher as traders reflected heightened war related buying.
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New York
Portugal
Nebel Knitting Villa Boss Resigns. Son Succeeds
Charlotte dispatch June 24 reports William Nebel, president and treasurer of the Nebel Knitting Villa, resigning today and being succeeded by his son, Arthur Nebel.
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Charlotte
William Nebel
Nebel Knitting Villa
Arthur Nebel
Finance giants named in joint congressional inquiry
Washington June 24. Big names of finance Andrew W Mellon Pierre Du Pont and John J Raskob were read today at a joint congressional inquiry into a tax case.
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Washington
Andrew W. Mellon
Pierre du Pont
John J. Raskob
Guilford May Seek Vote On Liquor Stores
Raleigh dispatch notes Wake county voters approved liquor control by a margin of about 1300. The result suggests other wavering counties may hold liquor control elections, as pro and anti groups note the decision could influence statewide momentum for liquor stores.
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Wake County
Enterprise Bureau
Sir Walter Hotel
J. C. Baskerwill
Raleigh
Treasury to Refund to Philippine Commonwealth
The Treasury will transfer 50 million dollars to the Philippine Commonwealth from net processing tax proceeds on cocoanut oil up to July 1 1937. Manuel L Quezon requested the move to purchase large landed estates for resale to tenants and for island improvements as experts in session in Washington consider economic readjustment options.
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State Department
Treasury
Philippine Commonwealth
Manuel L. Quezon
Joint Committee of
Duke Power appeal date set for Buzzard Roost plant case
The U S Circuit Court of Appeals will hear arguments August 8 in Asheville on Duke Power’s appeal of a district court decision allowing the PWA to grant Greenwood County South Carolina 2 800 000 for a Buzzard Roost power plant. Circuit Judge John J Parker granted Duke Power permission to appeal and a temporary injunction blocked the grant.
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U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Duke Power Company
PWA
Greenwood County
South Carolina
Buzzard Roost
John J. Parker
Utility Company
J. Lyles Glenn
Western District of
Circuit
Amelia Earhart Advances Toward Timor Island Flight
Batavia Java June 24 Amelia Earhart flew from Bandoeng to Sourabaya en route to Kupang Timor Island on her world flight. She plans to stay at Sourabaya about 250 miles from Bandoeng until tomorrow. Kupang lies about 1 200 miles east of Batavia and she will then fly to Australia.
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Java
Amelia Earhart
Bandoeng
Sourabaya
Kupang
Timor Island
Australia
Mystery Slaying Investigation Continues In Chicago
Hopes to solve the murder of Audrey Vallette faded as witnesses failed to identify Mrs. Freed in a police showup. Mrs. Freed, wife of a hotel manager, appeared with other women at the detective bureau after surrendering following a yearlong disappearance. Four witnesses saw a dash from a North Side hotel shortly after the shooting at a nightspot.
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Chicago
Audrey Vallette
Nesses
Freed
House Passes Railway Bill to Finance Retirement Program
Washington notes the House passed and sent to the Senate a substitute measure to finance a new railroad retirement program. It imposes a graduated payroll tax from five and one half to seven and a half percent by 1949, shared by employer and employee, with annual Treasury estimates near $165,000,000. The bill aims to overhaul existing pension machinery under legal challenges.
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Washington
House
Senate
Treasury
Ag Pension Machinery
White House
Mexico Moves to Expropriate National Railways
Mexico City reports President Lazaro Cardenas advances socialist program by expropriating the National Railways of Mexico. The line, incorporated in 1907, is partly state owned with bondholders to be reimbursed after asset revaluation. US investors held significant stock in 1930.
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Lazaro Car
Mexico
National Ratine
United
United States
District Attorney to Probe Parsons Kidnapping Case
Suffolk County District Attorney Li Berron Hill announced an immediate, thorough investigation into the disappearance of society matron Mrs Alice McDowell Parsons. He will establish headquarters at Brookhaven police quarters to pursue potential state law violations and question first witnesses arriving from Southon.
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N. Y
Li. Berron Hill
Suffolk County
Alice McDowell Parsons
Society
Hill
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