Riot injures forty in South Africa amid union clash
In Johannesburg on May 24 a protest at City Hall turned violent as police clashed with labor unionists defending E. S. Sachs a Garment Services Union leader banned from union work by Swart the justice minister. Forty hurt mainly from head injuries as bottles and clubs flew. Sachs urged calm and called for orderly conduct, while Mrs. Davidoff urged continued protest culminating in a strike planned for Tuesday demanding Sachs’s release.
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Anna Schepers
Garment Workers
Davidoff
John Krick
Agen Ry Yery
Papers Reveal FDR Okayed Battleship Plans For Reds
Washington reports disclose that in 1938 President Roosevelt approved plans for a 62 000 ton battleship to be built for the Soviet Union by Gibbs Cox naval architects. The plan was to be sold via a private firm but Moscow rejected it in favor of a conventional 16 inch gun warship, with notes suggesting policy grounds guided the decision.
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Edward E. Bomar
Washington
Roosevelt
Soviet Russia
Naval Architects
Moscow
State Department
United States
Russia
Joseph Davies
New York
Gibbs & Cox, Naval Architects
Tate
Georchecy
Navy
Charles Edison
C. S. Joyce
S To
Joyce
Fina
Wife Finds Husbands Aren't Safe Alone
BAYTOWN Tex Mrs W F Whitten told deputies her husband was fighting with her failed to defend his wife then tried to start dinner and ended up choking him The quarrel led to Corbett firing a handgun and escaping into the attic before jumping from the home and fleeing toward the street.
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W. F. Whitten
Pat Corbett
Corbett
Birth of a Nation Banned by Maryland Board
The Maryland State Board of Censorship banned the film Birth of a Nation, noting it is morally bad and crime inciting while it had been shown in local theaters.
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Baltimore
Maryland
State Board of Consens
Chile halts US uranium pact and warns on copper trade
Chile cancels its uranium pact with the United States and envisions a new copper deal to keep prices favorable. U.S. miners note Chile aims to extract concessions while maintaining友friendship and foreign-copper taxes. A separate Naples incident reports Harold Welch narrowly escaped when a drawbridge section sank, taking his hut with it.
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Nevada
Montana
United States
Sondhee
Boliva
Bolivia
Holland
Switzerland
Naples
Harold Welch
Welch
Red Scientist Predicts Inter Stellar Television
Soviet scientist Kirill reev predicts future TV will show detailed images of Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and Pluto from an automatic space scout rocket. He envisions future observatories on an artificial planet with gravity free zones and space city campuses. Separately two gunmen robbed a messenger at Roy Ber headquarters, escaping with $1,200.
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Mars
Jupiter
Saturn
Pluto
Es Cosmic Observatory
Poe
Porgeess
Cosmic Observatory
New York
Pace Roy Ber Eee
Research Shows Value Of Breaking In Autos
In Champaign Illinois researchers led by Prof. M Sinclair of the University studied metal fatigue and found that controlled stress can strengthen engine parts. His coaxing effect reportedly increases steel strength by over a third. Details will be shared at the American Society for Testing Materials meeting in June in New York.
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M. Sinclair
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Sinclair
En American Society For Testing Materials
New York
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