Britain Again Targeted by Communists
Soviet press amplifies anti Finland and anti Britain rhetoric in dispatches from Tallinn Helsinki and Moscow. Tass accuses Finnish reactionary elements of anti Soviet sentiment and outlines Britain blamed for India woes while denying Moscow’s harsh frontier demands.
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Moscow
Finland
U. S
Tallinn
Tass
Uus Eesti
Helsinki
Poland
Russia
Great Britain
Pravda
Communist Party
India
Hes
Urals
Leningrad
Gulf of Finland
Soviet Union
Soichtu
Rusia
United States
Supreme Court Justice Butler Dies at 73
Associate Justice Pierce Butler of the U S Supreme Court died at 73 after bladder trouble. His death shifts the court toward Roosevelt appointees and leaves surviving wife Mrs Butler and six children. He had been a lone Catholic on the bench and dissented on major term rulings. The story notes his health decline and that flags were lowered to half staff.
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Washington
Pierce Butler
Supreme Court
Roosevelt
Butler
James C. McReynolds
Charles Evans Hughes
McReynolds
Tennessee Valley Authority
Pierce Butler, Jr
William Butler
Francia Butler
St. Paul
Leo Butler
Margaret R Butler
Edward K. Dunn
Baltimore
Minnesota
Harding
Senate
Hanes Denies Tax Plan Set by Eccles Recommendation
Acting Treasury Secretary John W. Hanes said the administration has not settled on a tax program and Eccles recommendations do not reflect official views. He noted an open mind on taxes while studying business input and revenue prospects, voicing optimism for six month business conditions.
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Washington
John W. Hanes
Treasury
M. S. Eccles
Federal Reserve Board
Hanes
Eccles
St. Louis
Congress
Wall Street
Germany Rejects Peace Terms as War Pushes On
Berlin reports quote Germany vowing to fight until British supremacy is destroyed and offering no peace terms until victory. A Berlin source says external pressure and propaganda won’t rush military timing. Germany downplays talks of weakness while DNB notes ongoing submarine activity and British shipping losses.
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Melvin K. Whitefeather
Berlin
Germany
Netherlands
Belgium
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Franz von Papen
Ankara
Versailles
Europe
Paris
London
von Ribbentrop
Fuehrer
DNB
Al Capone Admitted to Hospital for Observation
Al Capone entered Union Memorial Hospital in Baltimore for observation and treatment after noon. Dr Joseph E Moore declined to discuss the case but officials said Capone was admitted under his own name and arrived with several men believed to be relatives. He was reportedly driven from the Lewisburg federal penitentiary after being released this morning.
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Baltimore
al Capone
Union Memorial Hospital
Joseph E. Moore
Capone
Lewisburg
Former LSU President James Smith Attempts Suicide in Jail
Dr James Monroe Smith former Louisiana State University president attempted to kill himself in his jail cell by slashing his foot with a razor. He was weakened but not in danger. He was to be moved to the state penitentiary tomorrow to serve eight to 24 years for misuse of school funds.
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Baton Rouge
Newman H. de Bretton
James Monroe Smith
Louisiana State University
Smith
State Penitentiary
DeBretton
Ashburn Removed as Inland Waterways Chief Over Expense Cut
A Commerce Department spokesman announced that Major General T. Q. Ashburn was ousted from the Inland Waterways Corporation presidency after his $5,000 annual personal expense account was cut. The allowance had been in addition to his $10,000 salary and was denied after the agency moved from the War Department to Commerce on July 1.
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Washington
Commerce Department
T. Q. Ashburn
Inland Waterways Corporation
Ashburn
War Department
Cary High students hurt in school bus overturn
Four Cary High School students were injured when their bus overturned on a country road about six miles from Raleigh. The victims were Mirl Robertson Pres sley Franklin Oliver Robinson and Raymond Dean. None sustained serious injuries.
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Raleigh
Cary High School
Mirl Robertson
Pressley Franklin
Oliver Robinson
Raymond Dean
Burlington delegation urges Alamance battlefield memorial
A Burlington North Carolina delegation urged the Interior Department to designate the Alamance Battlefield site as a national memorial, marking a Revolutionary War battle location in Alamance County.
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Washington
Burlington
N. C
Interior Department
Alamance
North Carolina
Georgia Supreme Court Voids Columbus Chain Store Tax
The Georgia supreme court ruled the Columbus city chain store tax void calling it discriminatory confiscatory arbitrary and unreasonable. The decision declares the tax invalid and affects the city’s business levy.
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Atlanta
Georgia Supreme Court
Columbus
Roosevelt to spend weekend at Hyde Park home
President Roosevelt moved up the Friday cabinet meeting to this afternoon and prepared to depart today for Hyde Park New York for a weekend at his home.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Hyde Park
N. Y
Eight Cleveland County farmers indicted under AAA Act
A federal grand jury charged eight Cleveland County cotton growers and ginners with violating the 1938 AAA Act. Named defendants include E. Y. Spangler A. P. Spangler Worth Spangler H. H. Spangler Co. R. Spangler E. B. Spangler A. L. Spangler and L. J. Spangler.
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Asheville
Navy
Cleveland County
E. Y. Spangler
A. P. Spangler
Worth Spangler
H. H. Spangler
Co. R. Spangler
E. B. Spangler
A. L. Spangler
L. J. Spangler
Richmond Woman Elected UDC President General
Mrs. Charles E. Bolling of Richmond Virginia was chosen president general of the United Daughters of the Confederacy at the Charleston convention. She succeeds Mrs. Walter D. Lamar of Macon Georgia who was criticized in Winston Churchill’s recent remarks deemed a gratuitous insult to the South.
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UDC
Charleston
D. C
P—Mirs
Charles E. Bolling
Richmond
The
United Daughters of the Confederacy
Walter D. Lamar
Macon
Winston Churchill
British Admiralty
Krupp to Enlarge Berlin Plant With 40 Million Loan
The Friedrich Krupp Company, Essen, Germany's largest munitions maker, has floated a four and one half per cent loan of 40,000,000 marks to finance plant enlargement. The loan runs 25 years.
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Krupps
Berlin
Friedrich Krupp Company
Essen
Germany
Reconstruction of Lagunillas Denied by Venezuela
Venezuelan government plans to forbid rebuilding Lagunillas on Lake Maracaibo after Monday night’s deadly fire. Authorities continue searches for bodies with estimates around 300 dead by press reports, while the government cautions the figure may be lower. Condolences flow from foreign representatives and the Papal Nuncio will deliver Pope Pius XII’s sympathy and blessing to victims’ families.
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Caracas
Venezuela
Lagunillas
Lake Maracaibo
Maracaibo
Pius Nil
South Carolina highway foreman killed in bridge area incident
Lowry T. Shillinglaw a 65 year old construction foreman with the state highway department was killed when struck by a truck while marking timber for replacement on the Catawba River bridge between Rock Hill and Charlotte. The driver Wesley Messer gave his name.
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Rock Hill
S&s. C
Lowry T. Shillinglaw
State Highway Department
T. W Derrick
Shillinglaw
Highway Department
Catawba River
Here
Charlotte
N. C
Derrick
Wesley Messer
Capone Freed From Prison Then Vanishes
Al Capone was released unconditionally from Lewisburg PA prison after seven years but disappeared with federal officers hours after release. Officials say he arrived earlier from Terminal Island California where illness led to removal from Alcatraz. Capone, jailed for tax violations, left without cash and without being met by relatives.
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Washington
al Capone
Chicago
Scarface
Lewisburg
James V. Bennet
Federal Prison Bureau
Alcatraz
Bennett
Capone
Terminal Island
California
Ralph Capone
Henry C. Hill
George Hess
Ickes Attacks Truck Traffic On U S Highways
Secretary Ickes ranted against trucks hogging the nations highways urging tighter rules to improve travel. He favored barring trucks on main highways during holidays and advocated curbs on transporting new cars by road to boost tourism and cut an annual travel deficit.
Polio Closes Fayetteville City Schools
Fayetteville public schools closed as a precaution after two polio cases at Haymount grammar school. Dr. Knox says cases likely incidental and not epidemic. under 15 barred from movies and gatherings while sesquicentennial events proceed with caution. About 3,000 pupils affected.
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Fayetteville
Haymount Grammar
J. ©. Knox
Raleigh
Knox
M. P. Foster
Cumberland County
Movies Threatened With Huge Walkout
In Hollywood AFL labor leaders warned of a general walkout by 35 000 union workers in motion picture studios if a 10 percent wage increase is not granted by 2 30 p m PST next Monday. Producer labor talks followed a two hour meeting. Twelve thousand technicians already gain the rise and 24 100 additional AFL workers would benefit or none will.
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Hollywood
American Federation of Labor Workers
AFL
William Bioff
Conference of
Studio Unions
Producer-Labor Committee
AFL International
Bioff
Bookies Silent as Nationwide News Service Shuts News Flow
In Chicago and across the nation thousands of betting rooms fell silent as Nationwide News Service, under orders related to federal opposition, halted relay of turf information. Bookmakers seek new methods, with private wires or newspaper reports. air mail even considered.
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Chicago
Nationwide News Service, Inc
M. L. Annenberg
Canada
Cuba
Air Mail
Early Hitler Supporter Thyssen Dies Not Yet Known
Lucerne reports Fritza Thyssen German steel magnate and early Hitler supporter is in Switzerland for an indefinite stay at Locarno hotel with wife and child. He cannot discuss why he left Germany due to neutral Switzerland laws on foreign residents and declined to provide details.
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Lucerne
Switzerland
Fritza Thyssen
Adolf Hitler
Locarno
Thyssen
Germany
Beer license revocations pursued in four North Carolina counties
Edgar H. Bain state director of the beer industry's clean up or close up campaign says he filed petitions with Wake Guilford Catawba and Buncombe county boards of commissioners seeking revocation of retail beer licenses for one dealer in each county.
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Raleigh
Edgar H. Bain
Wake
Guilford
Catawba
Buncombe County
Boards of Commissioners
Britain’s Navy Far Exceeds Germany says Jane’s Fighting Ships
The British navy shows clear superiority in most classes per Jane’s Fighting Ships with Britain leading in capital ships cruisers destroyers and submarines while Germany edges in torpedo boats and submarines Germany has lost several subs and Britain lists major construction plans including nine battleships five cruisers and six carriers as rivals France the U S also push naval programs with scant data from Soviet Russia and Japan
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London
Great Britain
British Naval Annual
Germany
Britain
Courageous
Royal Oak
Oxley
France
United States
Soviet
Russia
Japan
Unity Push for Federal State Wage Hour Law Cooperation
At the sixth national labor legislation conference a committee chaired by North Carolina labor commissioner PF H Shuford urged states to adopt cooperative wage hour enforcement with the federal Labor Standards Law. The Carolina delegation highlighted funding hurdles and proposed new financing options to aid joint inspections.
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Washington, Navy
PF. H. Shuford
North Carolina
State Labor Department
Federal Department
Shuford
Labor Department
W. Rhett Harley
South Carolina
Carolinas
Perkins
Seth Brewer
Charlotte N. C
Textile Worke Organizing Committee
T. A. Wilson
Raleigh
North Carolin
C. A Fink
Spencer
North Carolina Federation Labor
Paul R. Christopher
Spartanburg
D. C
The
Textile Workers Union
Aloysius Flynn
Columbia
South Carolina Federation of Labor
Capital Newsman Dies in Hospital After Brief Illness
Patrick H. McGowan veteran Washington correspondent died in a hospital in Laurens District of illness. He was about seventy years old.
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Capital Newsman
Laurens
D. C
Patrick H. McGowan
Washington
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