Court Rules Price Fixing Unlawful Under Sherman Act
The Supreme Court, in a 5 to 2 decision, upheld a lower court ruling finding 12 major oil companies and 5 individuals conspired to fix gasoline prices in ten Midwestern states in 1935 and 1936. Justice Douglas wrote the opinion abandoning the rule of reason and contrasted with earlier 1911 interpretations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Su- Court
Douglas
Federal District Court
Madison
Wis
Justice Department
Roberts
McReynolds
Hughes
Murphy
Mid-Continent
East Texas
Whelchel Freea By Jury Today
Rep. B Frank Whelchel of Georgia is acquitted in federal court on charges of conspiring to sell postal appointments. Co defendant H Grady Jones freed as go between. Jury reached verdict after lengthy deliberation in a Ball Ground related case with limited spectators present.
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Gainsville. Ga
Frank Whelchel
D-Ga
Waar
E. Marvin Underwood
Whelchel
H. Grady Jones
Huron Holcomb
Paul Grogan
Ball Ground
Jones
O. John Rogge
Louisiana
Lawrence Camp
Rogge
Bow Beifts
Nazi Planes Penetrate Northern Norway
Stockholm reports German warplanes continued to penetrate over Ost Woccey indicating plans for a swift Norway victory. Berlin dispatches say Alpine troops moved toward Narvik while dispatches to Swedish papers note 100 plus planes directed at the Arctic Narvik region as Allies hold the iron ore port. Observers fear a Narvik offensive and pressure to force capitulation.
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Stockholm
Ost Woccey
Norway
Berlin
Narvik
Arctic
Two Men Queried In Fatal Stabbing Near Asheboro
Asheboro on May 6. Police questioned David Powell and his son in law Wesley Jordan in the fatal stabbing of Herbert York, 24, on the old detour highway. York was stabbed at about 2 p.m. after an argument that involved Powell’s daughters and others. Earlier, three men were questioned and released.
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Asheboro
Herbert York
Here
J. L. Fritz
David Powell
Wesley Jordan
York
Central Falls
Powell
Churchmen Call War Savagery at Methodists Conference
Atlantic City May 6 Delegates at the general conference of the Methodist Church heard war in Europe described as a passing hurricane and a rising tide of savagery Evangeline Booth urged that the war would not last and Bishop Arthur J Moore warned of an abyss of savagery and materialism The conference urged teaching the facts of life to children and called for medical examinations before marriage with national and uniform state laws.
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Atlantic City
General Conference of the
Methodist Church
Europe
Evangeline Booth
Salvation Army
Arthur J. Moore
San Antonio
Tex
United States
Japan's Gold Reserve Shrinks Below One Hundred Million
Washington reports Japan's gold reserves are under 100 million dollars after three years of war in China. Central Bank lists 164 million, while 1939 gold purchases from the United States and ongoing shipments suggest dwindling domestic supply. Analysts cite hoarding, Formosa mining, and reduced foreign remittances as factors.
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Lloyd Lehreas
Washington
Japan
China
Central Bank of Japan
United States
Commerce Department
Russia
Formosa
New Charges Brought Before Dies Group
Peter J. Innes Jr of Bridgeport testified before the Dies Committee that CIO leader Harry Bridges and Edwin S. Smith of the National Labor Board conferred privately in Baltimore in 1936. Innes said Bridges and Smith appeared friendly and discussed elections on the Atlantic Coast, prompting questions about their relationship and timing.
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Washington
Dies Committee
Harry Bridges
CIO
Edwin S. Smith
National Labor Board
Peter J. Innes, Jr
Bridgeport
Conn
Innes
Smith
Bridges
Baltimore
Atlant
Thomas R-Nj
Thomas
Dies
Joseph Curran
Mervyn Rathborne
National
Army Troop Maneuvers Define Blue and Red Forces at Sabine
At Camp Beauregard Louisiana more than 40 000 officers and men of the Blue army advance westward to defend the Sabine River from 30 000 Red troops in America's largest peace time troop maneuvers. The training plan covers May 11 to May 25 and involves 70 000 soldiers from 33 states.
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Camp Beauregard
Louisiana
Sabine River
Texas
Third Army
America
Harvester Company Ordered to Disestablish Plans
Labor board trial examiner recommended that International Harvester Company disestablish employee representation plans at its six plants in Chicago and other areas. The ruling, based on a CIO organized hearing, says the plans were dominated by the company and interfered with self organization.
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Washington
Labor Board
International Harvester Company
Chicago
Examiner
C. W. Whittemore
Whittemore
CIO
Farm Equipment Workers Organizing Committee
Harvester Company
Germans Take Vital Airport
Refugees report German forces captured Hegra fortress and gained a crucial air base at Varnes, 30 miles from the Norwegian Swedish frontier and 375 airline miles from Narvik. Allied counteractions and heavy German bombardment left Hegra village in ruins and the fortress pock marked.
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Wes Gallagher
Ostersund
Sweden
Hegra
Varnes
DNB
Narvik
Trondheim-Storlien
Trondheim
Vatican Charges New German Atrocities Against Poles
The Polish embassy in Vatican City accuses Germany of eradicating Catholicism in Nazi occupied Poland and destroying Polish society through deportation shooting and financial ruin. It cites Cardinal Hlond reporting 39 priests killed and claims Germanized families from the Tyrol are being moved into Poland.
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Vatican City
Vatican
Pius XII
Hlond
Poland
Germany
Berlin
Tyrol
Nazis Mop Up Survivors Of Allied Retreat
German scouting planes spotted Allied detachments struggling through Norwegian mountains toward Narvik. Nazi forces aimed to mop up these units before aiding a garrison at Narvik and to build an airfield at Bodo for Stuka attacks.
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Louis P. Lochner
Berlin
Narvik
Namsos
Bodo
Adolf Hitler
Alcazar
Germany
Senate Judiciary Committee backs Logan-Walter bill action
The Senate Judiciary Committee rejected Democratic Leader Barkley’s advice and recommended immediate action on the Logan-Walter bill to subject federal agency orders to review. Chairman Ashurst said 16 members opposed delay and the panel formed a subcommittee to consider amendments to the legislation.
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Washington
Senate Judiciary Committee
Barkley
Congress
Ashurst
D-Ariz
Senate
Tension Mounts In Southeastern Europe
Dispatch from Budapest reports rising fear of war in southeastern Europe as Turkish and German troop concentrations appear near Greece Bulgaria and Hungary. Allied naval presence and a new rail link at Salonika fuel speculation while a Moscow denial counters rumors of Soviet massed divisions opposite Romania.
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Slovakia
Dodecanese Islands
Poland
Ruthenia
Hungary
Czecho-Slovakia
Salonika
Greece
London
Aegean Sea
Alexandria
France
Russia
United States
Belgrade
Germany
Britain
Bulgaria
Sofia
Romania
England
Mediterranean
Aegean
Struma
Balkans
Moscow
British Lose Destroyer Afridi in Norse Raid
In Norway operations during May, the 1,870 ton destroyer Afridi was sunk after German raids on convoys near Namsos. The Admiralty confirmed the ship struck by a bomb and later sunk, with two German bombers shot down. The Afridi led escort boats and carried 219 men under Captain P. L. Vian.
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London
Namsos
Norway
Admiralty
Act
Ca P. L. Vian
Altmark Josing Fjord
Norws
Arctic
Novik
Halvdan Koht
Birg Limberg
Erik Colban
Newegian
Cheberlain
Halifax
War Office
Narvi
Air Ministry
Ancho
Yorkshire Post
Central Pennsylvania probes sex killer case in two slayings
Police and CCC youths hunted a tan sedan linked to the maniac killer suspected in the deaths of Fay Gates and Rachel Taylor. Adams, chief of state police, said the Bellefonte region slayings appear identical with the five week earlier crime near 12 miles away, as investigators cite a three foot iron pinch bar as a possible weapon.
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Bellefonte
CCC
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania State College
Lynn G. Adams
State Motor Police
Fay Gates
Here
Rachel Taylor
Adams
Miss Gates
Spook Hollow
Mt. Eagle
Fay
Lois
Gates
Pilot Killed In Plunge Off Virginia Coast
Langley Field Virginia May 6 Second Lieut William F Gilbert of Langley Field was killed when his Curtiss P 36 pursuit plane plummeted into the Atlantic Ocean ten miles south of Virginia Beach. The body was not found immediately. A board of officers was appointed to investigate the accident. Gilbert resided in Kerry Tennessee.
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Langley Field
William F Gilbert
Atlantic Ocean
Virginia Beach
Gilbert
Jacob W S. Wuest
Kerry TN
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Mae
Elena
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NEA
Akanetel
Ene
Whelchel Freea
Marshal Goering
Erhard Milch
Nazi
Milch
Reich
Elmer W. Peterson
Labor Examiner
Nazi Held
M. M. Rost van Tonningen
Holland
Turkey
Italy
Edward Kennedy
Budapest
Wick Temple
Plunge
North Carolinian
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