Roosevelt Orders TVA Removal Spark Public Feud
Dr. A. E. Morgan refuses to accept President Roosevelt's removal as TVA chairman. He attacks fellow directors H. A. Morgan and David Lilienthal, denies trying to dominate TVA, and vows to respond with TVA records. Roosevelt had removed him two months earlier amid congressional hearings.
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Washington
A. E. Morgan
Roosevelt
Tennessee Valley Authority
TVA
Ohio
H. A. Morgan
A. F. Morgan
Congressional Investigating Committee
David FE. Lilienthal
Muscle Shoals
A.E. Morgan
Lilienthal
Morgan
War Admiral and Pompoon Enter Belont Park Mile
War Admiral and Pompoon, three year olds and rivals since 1987, are among nine entries for the mile and a quarter $20,000 suburban Handicap at Belont Park tomorrow. A separate item reports Judge Hoyle Sink convicting a 32-year-old Spray textile worker Reuben Bennett of second degree murder in the slaying of Police Lieutenant Leonard Clark on March 10.
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Admiral
Pompoon
New York
Belont Park
Wentworth
Hoyle Sink
Reuben Bennett
State Penitentiary
Mur
Leonard Clark
Yates Reaches Final in British Amateur Championship
Yates of At ta defeats Hector Thomson of Scotland one up to reach the British Amateur final at Troon Scotland. He will face Con Somerville or an Irish opponent in tomorrow's 18 hole title match after Thomson overcame a late rally.
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Troon
Scotland
Charley Yates
Atta
Hector Thomson
Pwing
CC. Ross (Sany) Somerville
Canada
Yates
Thom
Ale
Byrd Opposes PWA Allotment In Relief Plan
Senator Harry F Byrd of Virginia attacked the administrations 88 million relief and public works fund claim ing the PWA allotment is pump priming and an unnecessary drain on the treasury He argued experience shows pump priming brings prosperity Also reports from Kiel say the German mine layer Triton with four missing was announced by Kiel authorities but details were not given
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Ifrman Minelayver
Berlin
Political urges Aired Restrictions Of Activities
Restrictions on political activities of Works Progress Administration workers were debated in Washington on May 27 as the $3.247 billion relief bill advanced. The Hatch amendment would bar WPA staff from attending party caucuses or conventions where national nominations occur, while opponents argued it unfairly restricts legitimate political acts by federal workers.
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Ashington
Senate
WPA
Ress
Enator Barkley
Kentucky
$1 600 000 Suit Goes To Jury In Reynolds Case
Dr Arthur Selwyn Brown sues the R J Reynolds Tobacco Company for 1 600 000 dollars in Winston Salem North Carolina. Federal Judge Johnson J Hayes denies a directed verdict and sets final arguments deadline.
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Winston-Salem, N. C
Arthur Selwyn- Brown
R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company
Johnson J. Hayes
Negro Youth Given Reprieve From Death By Governor Hoey
Raleigh May 27 Mann Smith a 15 year old Negro rapier was to die in the gas chamber today but a commutation from Governor Clyde Hoey saved him. The governor commuted the sentence to life imprisonment though he convicted of ravishing a 13 year old white girl in McDowell county. There were no mitigating circumstances but he could not consent for the state to kill a child white or black.
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Raleigh
Mann Smith
Clyde Hoey
Smith
McDowell County
Southern lawmakers seek softer wage hour reform compromise
Washington reports rising optimism as a bipartisan push on a wage hour bill gains momentum. Senator Ellender proposes a phased 40 cent hourly minimum and 40 hour week with a one year rollout to allow industry adjustment. House conferees expand to seven with two Southern members. Senator Harrison cautions about potential fights over concessions as passage seems likely.
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Asbhington
House
Joint Conference
Pittee
Pator Harrison
Miss
Senate
Ellender
Pepper
Pla
Japanese Resistance Grows in Central China Drive
Shanghai dispatch reports Chinese forces stymie a Japanese push west along the Lunghai railway toward Chengchow and threaten Hankow. The 14th division under Gen Kenji Dobara is said to retreat east of Kaifeng as Chinese defense tightens around key river bends. Japanese air raids bomb 20 villages between Kaifung and Kweiteh, with heavy casualties.
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Shanghai
Central China
Lunghai
Chengchow
Hankow
Lanfeng
Kweiteh
Kaifeng
Kenji Dobara
Yellow River
Kaifung
Yucheng
Japan forms rapid victory cabinet with retired generals and financier
Tokyo May 27 Japan's new quick victory cabinet, reorganized to include two influential retired generals and a powerful financier, held its first session and mapped a broader campaign in China. Details of the revamped cabinet policy were not disclosed.
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Tokyo
Japan
China
Racketeers Enter Pleas Of Guilty
New York May 27 Two men named with James J Hines Tammany leader in an indictment charging they operated the 100,000,000 policy racket once controlled by Dutch Schultz pleaded guilty today to the 13 count indictment Arraigned before Supreme Court Justice Ferdinand Pecora George Weinberg and Harry Schoenhaus both of whom had pleaded innocent to an earlier indictment changed their pleas for the superseding indictment which included Hines
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New York
James J. Hines
Tammany
Dutch Schultz
Supreme Court
Ferdinand Pecora
George Weinberg
Harry Schoenhaus
Hines
Marion Butler in Critical Condition at Takoma Park Sanitorium
Former North Carolina Senator Marion Butler, 75, remained critically ill at a Takoma Park Maryland sanitarium with little change in his condition as of today.
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Washington
Marion Butler
North Carolina
Takoma Park
Refusal to Trade a Prisoner for Harold E Dahl
Salamanca Spain May 27 The government refused a prisoner exchange for Harold E Dahl American flyer held since last July despite his wife’s efforts He told insurgent authorities he would not fly again for them He spends his time in a hospital room playing ecards with attendants and says he is grateful to be alive but wishes to be back in the United States
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Salamanca
Spain
Harold E. Dahl
Dahl
Dad
United States
Cedillo Rebel Leader Surrenders As Army Pursues
Mexico City May 27 government reports more than 1100 followers of Saturnino Cedillo surrendered while an air strike wiped out a band of 25 rebels after they derailed a train carrying American tourists. Federal troops increased to 11000 pursuing Cedillo who fled to hills near San Luis Potosi. Car derailment outside Jaral de Barrio was caused by rail spikes removed from two rails.
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Mexico City
Saturnino Cedillo
San Luls Potosi
Cedillo
Cardenas
San Luis Potosi
Mexico City-Laredo
Tex
Jaral de Barrio
British Foreign Office Watches Czech Affair
The British Foreign Office considers posting observers in the German Czechoslovak border area. William Strang met with Czech officials in Prague and will visit Berlin and the Sudeten region to gauge German Czechoslovak friction and advise policy.
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Praha
British
Foreign Office
Czechoslovakia
William Strang
Berlin
Britain
Strang
B. C. Newton
Kamil Korsta
London
Paris
Jan Masaryk
Stefan Osusky
Korsta
Milan Hodza
Eduard Benes
Germany
Pizen
Pilsen
Skoda
Asch
Konrad Henlein
Grocer for White House to Close After 80 Years
Burchell's Grocery to close its doors on Wednesday ending a 80 year service to the White House. Mrs Norval Burchell owner and widow of the founder's son said the business will shut after sending orders to the White House since 1856.
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Washington
Burchell
White House
Norval Burchell
Bolivian cabinet resigns to let Busch form new team
In La Paz on May 27 Bolivian cabinet resigned to give President German Busch freedom to choose new ministers. Busch asked ministers to remain at their posts until a new cabinet could be formed.
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Bolivia
LA Paz
German Busch
Busch
Etay
Parents Sold Their Souls Declares Trial Prosecutor
Prosecutor Joseph Losealzo told the jury in Donald Carroll's murder trial that the parents of 18 year old Charlotte Matthiesen sold their souls by helping the boy seek acquittal. Defense said the 16 year old Donald acted under temporary insanity in a joint death pact with the girl. Losealzo demanded the supreme penalty for a deliberate premeditated murder.
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Mary ER. Plummer
New York
Joseph Losealzo
Donald Carroll
Charlotte Matthiesen
Donald
Loscaizo
Sydney Rosenthal
Losenlzo
Donald Carroll, Jr
Mayerling
Donald Carroll, Sr
Britain and Turkey Sign Munitions Agreement
London May 27. Britain and Turkey signed a pact to simplify Turkish purchases of British munitions and other goods.
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London
Britain
Turkey
DeJournette Accuses Williams Of Garland Mangum Murder
Greensboro May 27 Bat DeJournette accused Elmer Williams of the Garland Mangum murder in a sensational trial turn. DeJournette claimed Mangum after attempting to shield him in a hit and run case urged secrecy and accompanied him for liquor before Mangum was shot.
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DeJournette
Williams
Garland Mangum
Greensboro
Bat DeJournette
Elmer Williamm
Williams Yoesterday
Bat
Mangum
Saia
Elmer
McConnell Road
Young's Nursery
Fin Elmer
Grasshoppers threaten to overrun wide areas in spring
Farmers in several Midwest and Southwestern states face rising grasshopper hordes with only 14 days to eradicate them. Ranchers warn the wingless nymphs will soon fly to arroyos and brushy hills to lay millions of eggs, potentially moving as fast as 100 miles a day once airborne.
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Springer
N. M
Midwestern
Youthful Pirates Head to Honolulu With Stolen Yacht
Three teenage boys believed aboard the diesel sloop Tira, a $20 000 vessel owned by Lew K Foote, left Santa Cruz Wednesday night and were sought by coast guardsmen by sea and air. The youths are Lyle Tara 17 James Henninger 17 and Bill Grace 16 described as sea obsessed.
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Santa Cruz
Calif
Honolulu
Lew K. Foote
Lyle Tara
James Henninger
Bill Grace
Stocks Recover After Early Losses In New York Trading
In New York on May 27, stocks retraced early declines as offerings at the open weighed on leaders near yearly lows. Fractions to point losses followed, then some recoveries as volume dwindled and buyers picked favorites. By late morning quotations were irregular but not worse.
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New York
General Electric Declares 20 Cent Dividend
Directors of General Electric Co. announce a 20 cent dividend on capital stock, down from 30 cents previously. The payout is July 25 to stockholders of record June 24.
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New York
General Electric Co
Roosevelt says tax bill becomes law without his signature
President Roosevelt announced at the Arthurdale Homesteads that he would allow the five billion dollar tax bill to become law without his approval. He warned that veto or signing would reshape the act, and noted the bill replaces a graduated capital gains tax with a flat rate while retaining some undistributed profits tax elements.
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Arthurdale Homesteads
W. Va
Roosevelt
Arthurdale Homesteads School
Arthurdale Homesteaders
Deputies Accused of Beating Miner Before Ambush Slaying
Miner Ben Wilburn testified at the Harlan labor conspiracy trial that two Harlan county deputy sheriffs beat him and his stepson hours before the ambush killing of Ben net Musick age 19. Wilburn said Lee Hubbard and Wash Irwin forced them to jail and discussed taking another man along. Irwin, who lived near Ages, Ky, was killed last June 22 on Pine Mountain.
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London
Harlan
Harlan County
Bennett Musick
Marshall Musick
United Mine Workers of America
Ben Wilburn
Lee Hubbard
Wash Irwin
Irwin
Hubbard
Wilburn
Ages
Pine Mountain
Paine, Webber & Co Charged in 16 Million Fraud
New York state seeks to bar all Paine, Webber & Co partners from securities business after allegations of fraud involving unmarketable securities in diversified portfolios. State Attorney General John v Bennett Jr and aides accuse 19 individuals and four corporations of aiding the $16 million mispricing. Judge Rosenman imposes a three fold restraining order and schedules a hearing for June 7 on permanent injunctions.
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New York
John v. Bennett, Jr
State Supreme Court
New York Stock Exchange
of Paine, Webber & Co
New York State
Bennett
John & O'Hanlon
Paine, Webber & Co
Paine, Webber Group
Supreme Court
Samuel. Rosenman
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