Italian newspaper man arrested after uprising in Brazil
A Sao Paulo dispatch reports Italian journalist Cesare Rivelli, a Le Gazette Del Popolo correspondent, was arrested after last Wednesday's Fascist uprising. He carried an important document and will be brought to Rio for questioning. Dodgers release Hoyt Hanush and Spencer unconditionally. Jeffcoat optioned to Kansas City, squad to 22.
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Brazil
Rio DE Janeiro
Sao Paulo
Cesare Rivelli
le Gazette del Popolo
Tagin
O Globo
Rivelli
Earle Attacks Farley Over Kennedy Endorsement in PA Primary
Philadelphia May 16 Gov George H Earle condemned Democratic National chairman James A Farley after Farley backed Thomas Kennedy as a Pennsylvania team with Earle and Cilo opposing Lewis backed Kennedy Democrats should rally behind Kennedy in tomorrow's primary Earle said Democrats will not turn their party over to John L Lewis.
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Farley
Philadelphia
George H. Earle
Pennsylvania
John L. Lewis
James A. Farley
Earle
Cilo
Thomas Kennedy
New York
Democratic Party
Democratic National Committee
Tom Kennedy
George Earle
Senate
Lewis
Joseph F. Guffey
Wilson
State Democratic Committee
Charlies Alvin Jones
Pittsburgh
Charles J. Margiotti
Kennedy
Guffey
G. Mason Owlett
U. S
James J. Davis
Washington
Owlett
Vatican and Franco Regime Exchange Envoys
The Vatican news service reports the Holy See and Franco regime in Spain have exchanged plenipotentiary diplomatic representatives, completing formal recognition of Generalissimo Francisco Franco's government.
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Vatican
Franco Agreb Castel Gandolfo
Holy See
Francisco Franco
Hundred U S planes ordered from American firms for France
Paris May 16 The air ministry announced that 100 airplanes had been ordered from American manufacturers to fill a gap created by French industry failing to meet urgent orders.
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U. S
France
Paris
Air Ministry
Youth Admits Shooting Girl
Rocky Mount reports coroner M C Gulley set inquest for Ethel Davis 16 after she was found shot at an aunt’s home. Charles Inscoe Jr 14 reportedly said he accidentally fired the pistol during a secret reveal then discarded the weapon. Robie Lamb 17 was detained for questioning. Richard Barr Proctor 19 was held for interrogation on linked claims. Autopsy said Davis was not pregnant.
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Rocky Mount
M. C. Gulley
Ethel Davis
Charles Inscoe, Jr
Gulley
Ethel
Robie Lamb
Inscoe
Richard Barr Proctor
Proctor
Baptists Seek US Help Over China Losses in Japan Raids
A committee of the Southern Baptist Foreign Mission Board will ask Secretary Hull to use US influence to obtain reimbursement from Japan for losses to the board and its missionaries caused by Japanese air raids on properties in China.
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Richmond
Southern Baptist Foreign Mission Board
Hull
United States
Japan
Southern Baptist
China
Wins In First Round Of New Legal Battle
Judge E C Bivens ruled Mayor C 8 Grayson and eight High Point city council members not in contempt of court over a 6 million hydro electric plant resolution. Duke Power appealed. judge said he had heard enough and issued the order, affirming the action as a new project distinct from the prior injunction.
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E. C. Bivens
Greensboro
Grayson
High Point
Superior Court
Supreme Court
DUKE
Duke Power Company
Bivens
Grover H. Jones
Roy Deal
Convicts Escaped in Nash County Prison Break Tragedy
May 16 report from Rocky Mount states a posse hunted two escaped convicts from Nash County Prison Farm after four men, all Negroes, sawed through cell bars and climbed to the roof. Earl Watkins died from wounds, Marshall Joyner severely wounded. Roosevelt Clark and Dewitt Williams fled. Williams captured in Nashville driving a stolen car. Police chased Williams after 3 a.m. while others pursued separate leads.
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Rocky Mount
Nash County
H. &. Wellens
Earl Watkins
Marshall Joyner
C. C. Lamb
Wellens
Roosevelt Clark
Dewitt Williams
Williams
Nashville
Fred Wood
Wood
Clark
Benvenue
Government action in London Ky targets Harlan County coal case
Federal case concentrates legal experts in London Kentucky as 69 defendants face conspiracy charges under the National Labor Relations Act in the bloody Harlan County struggle. Former Sheriff Theodore Middleton is charged with intimidating miners. Thomas Ferguson, a United Mine Workers organizer, shows the bloody shirt worn the night he testified before the Senate Civil Liberties Committee.
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London
National Labor Relations Act
Harlan County
Theodore R. Middleton
Thomas Ferguson
United Mine Workers
Senate Civil Liberties T
New Sensations Promised As Harlan County Trial Opens
In Cleveland Ohio on May 16 Frank Kuletzki survived a gunshot after one robber fired at his heart the bullet lodged in his necktie miraculously. In London Kentucky 69 Harlan county defendants representing nearly all of the region's coal industry go on trial in federal court under a blanket indictment charging union suppression. The case hinges on Wagner Act issues and wartime era protection of Black voters. Government evidence includes testimony from a 1937 Senate Civil Liberties hearing detailing beatings, shootings, and dynamiting attributed to gun thugs tied to the Harlan County Coal Operators Association.
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Cleveland
Frank Kuletzki
London
Harlan County
Kentucky
Senate Civil Liberties Committee
Washington
Harlan
Patriotic Order to Convene State Meeting in Greensboro
Greensboro North Carolina May 16 The Patriotic Order Sons of America will hold its annual state convention here Thursday and Friday. Delegates from local camps are expected to attend the two day gathering in the city. Leaders will discuss past year achievements and plans for future charitable drives and community service programs.
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Greensboro
N. C
the Patriotic Order, Sons of America
Fred C. Ott Appointed Supervisor of Game Farms
Fred C. Ott, game technician of the farm security administration, has been appointed supervisor of the state department of conservation and development game farms in Raleigh North Carolina.
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Raleigh
N. C
Fred C. Ott
The
Farm Security Administration
State Department of
Preachers Used To Ward Off CIO Driven South Says Lawrence
Roy R. Lawrence of Charlotte, southern representative of the Textile Workers Organizing Committee, said manufacturers use preachers to attack the CIO in the South. He called some ministers “religious men” who preach against the CIO and claimed southern textile workers are industrial slaves. Francis D. Gorman urged unity to block wage-cutting moves and warned of anti-labor forces, while Sidney Hillman highlighted the need for a wage hour bill.
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CIO
Lawrence
Atlantic City
N. J
Roy R. Lawrence
Charlotte
N. C
Textile Workers Organizing Committee
Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America
AFL
Francis D. Gorman
United Textile Workers Union
Roosevelt
Gorman
Organized Labor
Europe
Sidney Hillman
The
Amalmagamated
Dancer Leaps From Plane to Death Over Iowa
Ward C. Fritz, 22, Omaha dancer, climbed onto a wing of a bi plane and leaped from about 2 000 feet while pilot Alvin Knudsen flew over Council Bluffs Iowa. Fritz’s father C M Fritz identified the body and could offer no reason for the tragedy.
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Council Bluffs
Alvin Knudsen
Omaha
C. M. Fritz
Knudsen
Fritz
Stone
Strikers Granted Protection by Supreme Court
The Supreme Court ruled that workers who strike over employer unfair labor practices are protected under the National Labor Relations Act. It upheld the NLRB order to reinstate five Mackay Radio and Telegraph employees in San Francisco, reversing a Ninth Circuit decision. Justice Roberts delivered the ruling with no dissent. Cardozo and Reed did not participate.
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Washington
Supreme Court
National Labor Relations Board
Mackay Radio and Telegraph Company
San Francisco
Roberts
Cardozo
Reed
Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
Robberts
Tennessee Valley Authority Power
Federal District Court
Tennessee
TVA Power
Rains Slow Down Push of Rebels in Spain and France
Heavy rains across the Sierra De Gudar slow the insurgent advance east of Teruel. Insurgent forces hold Mount San Cristobal and move toward Mora Derubielos, threatening the Teruel Sagunto highway key to communications with Castellon and Valencia. General Miguel Aranda accelerates operations, repelling government forces near Corbalan as the line shifts northeast of Teruel.
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Hendaye
France
Sierras
Teruel
Mount San Cristobal
Sierra de Gudar
Mora Derubielos
Mora de Rubielos
Teruel-Sagunto
Castellon
Valencia
Miguel Aranda
Mount Cristobal
Corbalan
Reorganization Bill May Be Revived As FDR Leaders Talk
In Mexico City clashes between students and Socialist Youth members wounded several as buildings at the University of Mexico were seized and defended with pistols and knives. President Roosevelt discussed reviving the government reorganization bill with congressional leaders, but no decision was reached. The National Labor Relations Board recall of an order against Republic Steel to reinstate 6,000 striking workers was directed to show cause. Mooney’s parole action was deferred as the court plans two more sessions before summer.
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Mexico City
Socialist Youth
University of Mexico
Washington
Roosevelt
Federal Circuit Court
Philadelphia
National Labor Relations Board
Republic Steel Corporation
Thomas J. Mooney
California
San Francisco
Chinese Deny Japs Cut Lunghai Railway Front
Hankow May 16. Chinese high command denied Japanese forces had cut or reached the Lunghai railway near Su chow. A spokesman said top commanders direct operations, reinforcements reached endangered positions, and Chinese confidence rose. Also Gov. Olin D Johnston said he would announce his candidacy for Democratic senator nomination after meeting with President Roosevelt, opposing incumbent Senator BE D Smith.
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Hankow
Lunghai
Suchow
Tientsin-Pukow
China
Washington
Olin D. Johnston
South Carolina
Roosevelt
Columbia
BE. D. Smith
Japanese say Suchow surrounded as assault near
Japanese dispatches claimed Suchow was completely encircled and Japanese forces were closing in from all sides on thousands of Chinese trapped near the central China rail junction. They said the final gap to the west near the Lungha railway at Tangshan had been closed, setting up an imminent assault.
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Shanghai
Suchow
Intel Central China
Lungha
Tangshan
Hull Suggested For Peace Prize
New York May 16 Secretary of State Cordell Hull has the real spirit of peace and should be awarded the next Nobel prize says Professor Jacob Worm Muller of the University of Oslo adviser to the Nobel committee. He cites Hulls policies toward Europe and South America and his push for trade agreements.
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New York
Cordell Hull
Jacob
Worm-Muller
University of Oslo
Norway
Hull
Europe
South America
Pennsylvania Primary Conflicts Stir National Interest
Postmaster General James A. Farley warned that the Pennsylvania primary could determine Democratic success in the November election. Philadelphia police prepared for irregularities as War ring Democrats and others debated Kennedys and Earles, with observers urged at polls and pledges to protect voting rights.
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
High Point Boy Among Victims Many Missing
Flames started in a basement kitchen of the Terminal hotel killed 25 persons and left 13 injured or missing in Atlanta. More than a dozen were rescued or leaped to safety. Victims unaccounted for ranged from 5 to 60.
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Atlanta
Terminal Hotel
Son of Local Hosiery Mill Official Among Atlanta Fire Victims
William Howard Snider Jr., 14, of High Point, was killed in the Terminal hotel blaze in Atlanta. He was the son of W. H. Snider, longtime operator of the Snider Hosiery Mill at 504 Grimes Street. The boy was with his father in Atlanta. at 4 o clock no word had come from the father. His mother is Mrs Beulah Snider of Denton. Snider was traveling as a hosiery mill salesman when the tragedy occurred.
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William Howard Snider, Jr
High Point
Atlanta
W. H. Snider
Grimes Street
Beulah Snider
Denton
Snider
Fire devastates 5 story hotel. 65 reportedly killed
A west wind fed a blaze that destroyed a 5 story hotel as 65 people were ravaged. Debris piled on the street level impeded cleanup for two days while sanitary crews removed wreckage and rescuers prayed for survivors. Police officials described the rapid spread and danger posed by the building’s construction.
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M. A. Hornady
Debria
J. T. Laseter
Will B. Hartsfield
Costner Trial Set in Bryson City For Touhy Gang Ties
Federal prosecutors plan to try Rufus Costner in Bryson City on May 23. The 38-year-old Knoxville man, alleged treasurer of the Touhy gang, was arrested in Knoxville and is held in Buncombe County jail. Indicted on receiving stolen property and conspiracy to rob U S mails, he is accused of taking more than 150000 dollars from the gang’s loot, largely from a 105000 dollar Charlotte nail robbery 11 years ago. Other proceeds stem from bank robberies and the John Factor kidnapping. Fellow defendants are serving long terms and are expected to testify against Costner.
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Asheville
N. C
Rufus Costner
Knoxville
Tenn
Touhy
Bryson City
Roy Francia Aad Costner
Buncombe County
Costner
U. S
Charlotte
John
Jake the Barber
Cage
Asi! Bankbart
Dutch Bch
Isaac Costner
Rufus
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