Steel firms threaten shutdowns amid picket turmoil
Two independent steel producers Republic Steel and Youngstown Sheet and Tube threaten to close plants if picketing blocks safe entry for workers. The five independents employ 188,000. talks with Crucible began in Pittsburgh. Automobile workers in Detroit and union organizers plan nationwide campaigns and protections for new members. Hollywood craftsmen plan theater pickets in Chicago area. twelve workers honored fifty employees.
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Associated Press
Republic Steel Corporation
Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company
Republic
Youngstown
Inland
Bethlehem
Crucible
Steel Workers Organization Committee
Pittsburgh
United Automobile
Detroit
Ford Motor Company
Chicago
Royal Wedding Set For June 3 At Chateau de Cande
Wallis Warfield and the Duke of Windsor will marry at Chateau de Cande on June 3 with no British royal family attendance. The announcement notes the couple will be joined by close associates from the past months and that the wedding will not include royal guests.
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France
Wallis Warfield
Duke of Windsor
Chateau de Cande
George VI
Duke
Duke of Kent
Edward
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Chanteau
Herman L. Rogers
Teakle Wallis Warfield
Speculation on Roosevelt Supreme Court Nominee
Washington May 18. Government officials discuss a successor to retiring Justice Willis Van Devanter. No nominee named yet. possibilities include Florence F Allen or Robert H Jackson with others like Felix Frankfurtner Donald Richberg James M Landis named in circles. Attorney General Cummings mentioned as part of the chatter.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Willis van Devanter
Roosevelt
Senate
Congress
Florence F. Allen
Cleveland
Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals
Robert H. Jackson
Felix Frankfurtner
Harvard Law School
Donald Richberg
National Recovery Administration
James M. Landis
The
Securities Commission
Cummings
Resignation of Justice Van Devanter Effective June 2
Associate Justice Willis Van Devanter announced his retirement from the Supreme Court effective June 2. The move clears President Roosevelt to make his first appointment to the high bench.
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Supreme Court
Roosevelt
Justice
White House
Capital
Washington
Wilis van Devanter
Justice Van Devanter retirement fuels Roosevelts court plan
A 78 year old justice announces retirement amid push for Supreme Court reorganization. Roosevelt aims to add six justices. Ashurst backs the bill while Wheeler demands its withdrawal. Van Devanter's departure marks the court's first vacancy since 1932, with Sutland and three others eyed for possible retirements before fall term.
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White House
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Ca Hill
Judiciary Committee
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Supreme Court
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Arts
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Hughes
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Brandeis
Butler
Oliver Wendell Holm
Jutice Benjamin N. Cardozo
Last Tober
Contract Set for City Hall in Thomasville
Thomasville May 18 Special The city awarded the city hall contract to L Brashow and Son of Salisbury North Carolina for general work and Albany Heating and Plumbing Company of Albemarle won the heating and plumbing bid. Total project cost ~106999 with ~12000 for heating and plumbing. West Guilford avenue site purchased from Dr Charles R Thomas. Building will house city offices court and fire station. Work to begin soon.
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Thomasville
New City
Bradshaw and Son
Salisbury
N. C
Albemarle Heating and Plumbing Company
Albemarle
Guilford Avenue
Chas, R. Thomas
New Lows Hit On Stock Market Amid Brief Selloff
In New York on May 18 stocks fell to new lows for the year but found support later as trading sped up briefly. A late selling wave followed news that Supreme Court Justice Van Devanter would retire on June 2, then rebounded led by steel and rail shares.
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New York
Supreme Court
van Devanter
Premier Negrin forms united front in Spain war cabinet
Valencia May 8 Dr Juan Negrin takes direct command of Spain's government armies in a bid to coordinate civil and military defenses against the insurgent revolt. He urges the aloof anarcho-syndicalist to back a common front as he organizes the sixth wartime government of the republic after Largo Caballero's collapse.
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Juan Negrin
Treasury
Manuel Azana
Spain
Francisco Largo Caballero
Valencia
American volunteers suffer heavy losses in Spanish Civil War
In Madrid on May 18 officials reported American volunteer battalions fighting for the government have sustained steep casualties. Reliable sources estimate more than 600 U.S. citizens killed on the government side.
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Madrid
United States
Plane crash claims pilot and passenger in Franklin
In Franklin on May 17 a plane crash killed Harve Shiddies, the local tax operator, and left Robert Williams of Jacksonville Florida dead from injuries suffered. Williams was the 19 year old pilot. Shiddies died with a crushed skull while Williams sustained severe chest and leg injuries.
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Franklin
Robert Williams
Jacksonville
Fla
Harve Shiddles
Williams
Shiddies
Catherine Dexter
Burlington Mill Reopens After Misunderstanding
The King Cotton Mills in Burlington reopened after a one day closure due to an office feud. Robert N. Jeffries of Richmond Virginia said it was not a strike and the plant is operating with full staff. The manager responsible for the misunderstanding has resigned and officials report all differences have been settled.
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Burlington
King Cotton Mills
Robert N. Jeffries
Richmond
Marlboro Mills Resume Operations After CIO Deal
Marlboro cotton mills revert to normal with 1,100 workers under a one year contract. CIO officials say the accord includes a 12 percent wage rise a 40 hour basic week and CIO recognition as the sole bargaining agent. Horton says CIO members keep membership through the agreement and others may join. Management expresses satisfaction with terms.
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Myles Horton
CIO
Squeezed by a White-Clad Mystery Peering at Homes
Tarboro police hunted a tall white-sheeted figure dubbed The Squeez er after a Saturday night sighting at Miss Hilda Liles home secretary to N B E Gresham. Liles screamed as the white figure stepped from behind a bush and moved toward her, prompting neighbor alarms.
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Tarboro
Hilda Liles
N. BE. Gresham
Negro Maid Is Towns Heroine
Mamie Spearman a Black maid saved two children by leaping from a second story window of a burning house in Fayetteville. She carried three month old Bernice Fleishman and four year old Joel to safety while waking occupants Mrs. J Weighauser and Mr. A M Fleishman. Bernice suffered injuries and was treated at a hospital with X rays for a possible broken leg.
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Fayetteville
Mamie Spearman
Scottsboro Case Prosecutor Knight Dies in Montgomery
Alabama mourns the death of Thomas E. B. Knight Jr a 39 year old lieutenant governor and special prosecutor in the Scottsboro case He died of kidney and liver ailment after two weeks in a Montgomery hospital.
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Montgomery
Ala
Alabama
Thomas EB. Knight, Jr
Scottsboro
Confession Tells How Woman Killed Daughter in Long Island
Police disclosed the full confession of Mrs. Helen Tiernan 25 and her Greek suitor George Christodulus 39 in a murder plot on Long Island. Tiernan's seven year old daughter Helen was killed with a knife and fire, her four year old son Jimmie was critically wounded but alive. The body of Helen was found near Brookhaven after the attack, while Jimmie was expected to recover.
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New York
Helen’ Tiernan
George Christodulus
Long Island
Christodulus
Senate Judiciary CommitteeAdverse Report On Roosevelt Court Bill
The Senate Judiciary Committee voted 10 to 8 to report the Roosevelt court bill adversely. Amendments were mostly rejected as the panel, in executive session after Justice Van Devanter's retirement, held firm against compromise. Borah called the tally and noted seven Democrats and three Republicans opposed. seven Democrats and Norris supported the bill.
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Washington
Senate Judiciary Committee
Senate
Justice van Devanter
Borah
R-Ida
Mayor in Szeged Declines 100 Duel Challenges
Szeged Hungary May 18 AP Mayor Andor Palffy received 100 dueling challenges from members of the Arrow and Cross society a Nazi organization offended that streets were not renamed in honor of anti Semitic leaders. He called the notion silly and indicated he likely would not accept any duel offers.
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Szeged
Hungary
Andor Palffyi
Arrow and Cross Society
Fayssoux Inquest Delayed For Stomach Analysis
Gastonia May 18 Coroner C C Wallace said the inquest into the death of T M Fayssoux 45 found dead on his mother's porch last Friday was postponed to Friday night to allow an analysis of the decedents stomach by state chemists to be introduced. The inquiry had been set for tonight.
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Gastonia
C. C. Wallace
T. M. Fayssoux
Negro Saved From Mob In Florida Assault Case
A motorized mob dispersed after night long efforts to seize a black man held on a charge of assaulting a white woman. The crowd, gathering at the Apalachiola courthouse, learned the suspect had been moved to Panama City jail earlier in the day. Sheriff Robbins and deputies fled ahead of a convoy, four spokesmen later verifying the man’s absence from the Panama City jail.
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Apalachiola
Fila
Panama City
Here
Charles L. Robbins
John Scott
Recess Taken In Tax Case Involving DuPont And Raskob
The government paused cross examination of Pierre S. DuPont in a securities case tied to the 1929 crash. DuPont and Raskob reported losses over 7 million dollars in 1929 tax filings, challenged as fictitious sales with an unlawful repurchase deal. The government seeks a deficiency of 617,316 dollars for DuPont and 1,026,340 dollars for Raskob.
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New York
Pierre
DuPont
James S. V. Ivins
Wall Street
Mason B. Leming
Ivins
Raskob
Aluminum Workers To Strike Tonight At Alcoa Plant
Fred Wetmore president of the Aluminum Workers' union at Alcoa announces 3000 fabricating plant employees will strike at 10 pm to demand elimination of an 18 cent hourly wage differential between Alcoa and New Kensington plants. About 1000 reduction plant workers will not join the strike for now.
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ALCOA
Tenn
Fred Wetmore
Aluminum Workers’ Union
Aluminum Company of America
New Kensington
Wetmore
Hardware men to meet in Winston-Salem convention
The 33rd annual convention of the Hardware association of the Carolinas will be held in Winston-Salem on June 11.
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Winston-Salem
The
Hardware Association of the
Girl Calm at Murder Trial in Jersey City Court
Gladys MacKnight, 17, shows cool composure as the state questions her on the day two testimony in the hatchet slaying of her mother Mrs Helen MacKnight 41. The defendant and her ex sweetheart Donald Wightman 18 face possible electric chair. A policewoman describes the kitchen scene and sounds of a struggle the night of July 31.
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Jersey City
N. J
Gladys MacKnight
Bayonne Club
Donald Wightman
Helen MacKnight
Arthur W. Johnson
MacKnight
Ice Gorged Rivers Flood Alaska Communities
Ice gorged rivers flood two Alaska communities with flood waters rising to 14 feet at Nenana and forcing residents to flee low-lying areas. The May 18 report notes widespread inundation across affected towns as waterways spill from ice jams.
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Fairbanks
Alaska
Nenana
Supreme Court to Rule On Security Program
Washington May 18 The Supreme Court will rule on the constitutionality of the Security program either Monday or June 1 as the last opinion days before the summer recess. A high justice department official disclosed the possibility of an early ruling on another major case the suit to dissolve the aluminum company of America appealing directly to the Supreme Court from an injunction by oral Judge Robert M Gibson Pittsburgh. Normally such an appeal would go to the circuit of appeals.
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Washington
Supreme Court
High Justice Department
Alu Um Company of America
Super Court
Robert M. Gibson
Pittsburgh
Circuit of Appeals
Engine Plunges Through Trestle Killing Trainmen
Two Missouri Pacific railroad workers died when their locomotive fell through a creek trestle near Nashville Arkansas. Engineer O G Mosely 47 of Gordon Ark and fireman J Taylor 38 of Memphis Tenn were trapped and scalded by steam in the wreck.
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Nashville
Ark
Missouri Pacific Tra
J. L. Richardson
O. G. Mosely
Gordon, Ark
J. Taylor
Memphis
Tenn
Battle of Bilbos Opens in Pearl River County
POPLARVILLE Miss May 18 Pearl River county crowds packed the court to watch the first skirmish in the legal battle between Junior Senator Theodore Bilbe and his estranged wife. Judge Stevens set 2 pm to hear Mrs Ko's attorneys contend the Pearl River court is proper for trial and temporary alimony of 1000 dollars attorney fees of 2500 dollars and support on an equal basis with in the litigation.
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Poplarville
Miss
Pearl River County
Bilbos
Chancery
Ben Tevens
Theodore Gilmore Bilbe
Stevens
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