Senate Committee Okays Nomination Of Black to Court
Democratic leaders pushed the Black Supreme Court nomination toward confirmation as the Senate Judiciary Committee approved it 13 to 4 after a heated 90 minute debate. Senator Burke sought to question Black on qualifications but lost the motion. The move sets up a likely Senate vote as conservatives seek to block or delay. The session also saw farm legislation progress and adjournment timing discussed.
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Senate
Washington
Supreme Court
Senator Black
Alabama
Senate Judiciary Committee
Burke
D.-Neb
Black
House Agriculture
House
O'Connor
D.-N.y
Congress
House Ways and Means Committee
White House
Farm Credit Administration
New York
Royal S. Copeland
Roosevelt
United States Supreme Court Bench
Labor To Support Dewey For Office
New York August 16 The American Labor Party endorsed Thomas E Dewey for Manhattan district attorney linking labor backing to his anti rackets campaign The party already supports LaGuardia and would back Dewey in the Republican primary Dewey noted for convicting 72 of 73 trials seeks to curb Tammany Hall ties to the underworld via vigorous law enforcement
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New York
Thomas E. Dewey
American Labor Party
Manhattan
New York City
Fiorello LaGuardia
Dewey
LaGuardia
Alex Rose
Labor
New York County
Tammany Hall
Weather Outlook for Tennessee Virginia and Kentucky
Tennessee expects fair skies and warmer conditions in the extreme east tonight with Tuesday cloudy. Virginia shows fair weather and warmer in the west and north tonight with Tuesday fair and warmer in the southwest. Kentucky reports fair conditions and warmer air in the east tonight with Tuesday partly cloudy.
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Tennessee
Virginia
Kentucky
Woman Indicted in Mass Murders in Ohio
Cincinnati August 16. Hamilton county grand jury indicted Anna Hahn a 31 year old mother on two counts of murder in the alleged mass killings. The indictments accuse malicious and premeditated slayings of George Gsellman 67 on July 6 and Jacob Wagner 78 on June 3. Judge Charles Bell to receive the short form indictments after testimony from a small police and prosecutor team.
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Cincinnati
Dudley Miller
Hamilton County
Anna Hahn
George Gsellman
Jacob Wagner
Charles Ss. Bell
John Bauerle
Hahn
Patrick Hayes
George Schuttle
Walter Hart
Frank M. Gusweiler
Green River Chair Co to Reopen After Strike
In Livermore Kentucky the Green River Chair Company will reopen tomorrow after a nearly two month idle period due to a strike. The plant employs 150 workers and a union contract was set to be signed today with terms of the settlement not announced.
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Livermore
Green River Chair Company
Bleached Indian Bones Reveal Ancient Ponca War Tale
Niobrara Nebraska August 16. Archaeologist Dr H Bell and students uncover 14 skulls in a Ponca fort high above the Niobrara and Missouri rivers. The find tells a legendary love story that triggered conflict with the Omaha Sioux. bones and trenches suggest a great plains battle.
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Larry Hall
Niobrara
Neb
Helen of Troy
Ponca
H. Bell
University of Nebraska
Missouri Rivers
Nebraska
Poncha
Great Plains
Bell
Buechers
Mattern Joins Wide Hunt for Missing Fliers
Jimmie Mattern arrives in Fairbanks to join the search for Sigismund Levaneffsky and five Soviet crew. A Vartanian flies from Juneau to coordinate rescue efforts as officials report weak radio signals from the missing four motor plane. Crosson warns Arctic rescue is difficult while Mattern and his mechanic Hank Jones plan further aerial searches across the 148th meridian.
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Fairbanks
Alaska
A. Vartanian
Juneau
Seattle
Sigismund Levaneffsky
Vartanian
Glacier Highway
Washington
Governmen
Irkutsk
Siberia
Levaneffsky
Jimmie Mattern
Oakland
Calif
Sigismudn Levaneffsky
148Th
Moscow
Arctic
Hank” Jones
Mattern
Crosson
America
Joe Crosson
Committee OKs 78.5 Million Deficiency for final major supply measure
The House appropriations committee approved a 78.502 million deficiency after trimming 42.899 million from budget estimates. Key items include a 23 million start for a three year public building program, a 33 million payment to land banks and the farm mortgage corporation, and authorization for 150 million in contracts for the maritime commission.
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Washington
House Appropriations Committee
District of Columbia
Secretary of the Treasury
Federal Land Banks
Farm Mortgage Corporation
Congress
Roosevelt
Maritime Commission
Commission
National Labor Relations Board
Grand Central Station
New York
Tennessee Electric Power seeks final power approval
The Tennessee Electric Power Company won state approval to build a 2 million dollar steam generating plant in Nashville and will apply to the Federal Power Commission for final consent. The State Utilities Commission, by two to one, said generation is cheaper than TVA purchases.
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Nashville
Tennessee Electric Power Company
State Utilities Commission
Federal Power Commission
Washington
State Commission
Leon Jouromon, Jr
TVA
Porter Dunlap
W. H. Turner
Tennessee Valley Authority
Plane completes survey flight across the Atlantic
The German seaplane Nordmeer completed its first survey flight in the Atlantic crossing race, landing in Long Island Sound at 6 37 a m EST after a 2392 mile hop from the Azores. From its mother ship Schwabenland off Horta in the Azores it was catapulted at 2 10 p m EST yesterday and averaged about 150 miles per hour for most of the trip. It had flown from Lisbon, Portugal, last Friday.
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Port Washington
N. Y
Nordmeer
Atlantic Ocean
Long Island Sound
Azores
Schwabenland
Horta
Azores Islands
Lisbon
Portugal
Remorse Over Slain Son Shocks St Louis Mother
In St Louis on August 16 police report Lenore King a 27 year old mother confessed to poisoning her 6 year old son Jack King Jr Her remorse deepens as church friends mourn at the boy s funeral nearly 300 attended at his former church morgue photos show the child s body and King signed a statement admitting she put rat poison on a hamburger
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ST. Louis
Lenore King
Jack King, Jr
Jack
City warrants fade from Knoxville records
In Knoxville on August 16 city warrants finally ceased circulation after existing since 1932, marking their official disappearance from the municipal system.
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Knoxville
Rebels Smash Loyal Defense In Spanish Region
Reuters dispatch describes insurgent forces punching into Venta Nueva in Santander Province on Aug 16, with four Franco divisions pushing toward Reinosa and Santander. The advance cuts through barbed wire defenses, with 500 government troops reportedly captured and 500 killed or wounded so far, as a second column nears Reinosa and a third moves toward the Bay of Biscay.
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Santander
Venta Nueva
Reinosa
Francisco Franco
Franco
Burgos
Vent
Soncillo
Bay of Biscay
Judge Blocks Alleghany Chesapeake Railway Merger
Chief Judge Samuel K. Dennis forbade a merger of the Alleghany and Chesapeake corporations, key Van Sweringen rail lines, saying the plan harms class A preferred stockholders. He issued a permanent injunction prohibiting stockholder action on the proposed merger.
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Baltimore
Samuel K. Dennis
Alleghany
Chesapeake
van Sweringen
Alleghany Corporation
Dennis
Tri-Continental Corporation
Selected Industries, Inc
Broseco Corporation
Aldebaran Corporation
University of Pennsylvania
Konoye faces son criticism during Tokyo address
Premier Konoye, criticized by his Princeton-educated son, spoke in the House of Peers in Tokyo outlining government policies. Meanwhile in Shanghai, Chinese forces pressed a fierce assault on Japanese naval HQ along the Whangpoo River, claiming advances while Japan disputed the reports. Refugees fled as foreign settlements faced bombardment and evacuation efforts intensified.
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Prince Konoye
Japan
House of Peers
Tokio
Princeton University
Konoye
Uncensored AP dispatch on Sino Japanese conflict from Mills
James A Mills chief AP foreign correspondent wirelessed from the U S President McKinley between Japan and Shanghai the first completely uncensored story of Japan s side of the Sino Japanese conflict reported to New York for the Associated Press.
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James A. Mills
Associated Press
U. S
McKinley
Japan
Shanghai
New York
Japan Sends Thousands to Reinforce China War Effort
News aboard the President McKinley reports Japan pouring troops into Chinese war zones. An estimated 80 000 Japanese soldiers and Marines are already in China, with 20 000 more ships passing Shanghai to reinforce. Crowds greet soldiers at Japanese rail hubs as new columns head toward the front.
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Shanghai
Japan
Whangpoo River
Honghew
Hongkew Park
Woosung
Whangpo
Shanghai A
International Settlement
Pootung
Taft
Red Cross
Manila
Yangtze River
S. S
McKinley
Kobe
China
Woman built air force aids China in war against Japan
Madame Chiang Kai-Shek, wife of Chiang Kai-shek, leads China’s air forces with about 550 planes based at 15 airfields. Japanese bombers attack air bases as Shanghai endures a deadly bombing incident blamed on a Chinese plane setback. Mrs Roosevelt urged steps to prevent repeats. observers credit eight years of rapid Chinese aviation growth.
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China
Japan
Nanking
Chiang Kai-Shek
Madame Chiang
Shanghai
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr
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