Congress Cuts Rules to Speed Adjournment Day
The House adopted a resolution to suspend several rules for the session to hasten adjournment. It would allow suspending rules, a two thirds vote, and day to day recesses, with final action on the final major bill and farm tenancy funding through the Wagner housing measures.
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Supreme Court
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Martin
Boileau
Wis
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DWW
O'Connor
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Rayburn
Tennessee Virginia and Kentucky Weather Brief
Weather bulletin reports fair skies and slight warming across Tennessee and Virginia tonight. Central and western Kentucky see partly cloudy conditions with possible local showers in the west and north regions later tonight. Wednesday outlook shows partly cloudy conditions and continued warmth with a chance of showers in southern mountains.
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Virginia
Kentucky
Wernesley
Copeland Attacks Black Over Klan Ties in Court Nomination
In Washington on August 17 Senator Copeland charged that Black was influenced by Klan sympathy as he defended Black's Supreme Court qualifications. Senator McGill denounced Copeland for prejudice while Burke urged ineligibility and bias claims. The exchange drew Senate disruption and a distant Klan response from Atlanta.
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Copeland
D-N.xy
Senate
Black
D.-Am
Supreme Court
McGi D-Kans
McGill
Senator Copsland
Roosevelt
Kien
Burke
D.neb
Cope
Blac
BeeGill
Schwellenbach
Copeands
New York
New Yorker
Hiram B. Evans
Atlanta
Fugitive of Chain Gang Questioned in Nashville
Nashville police questioned Vincent Baker identified as a Georgia chain gang fugitive after a weekend robbery spree. In a downtown hotel room detectives seized ammunition and two guns and arrested Grace Jonesy and Nellie Young, with Baker’s wife and a baby present but released. Baker fled a Troup county gang last July after raiding an arsenal and shooting a guard.
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Nashville
Vincent Baker
Georgia
Baker
Baxter Cobb
Cobb
Grace Jonesy
Nellie Young
Botty
Troup County
William Ross
Atacta
Delma Me
Keehan
Atlanta
Rooster Plucked in Subway Protest Turns Comical
In New York Aur 37 a man named Berger plucked feathers from a five pound rooster on a subway train provoking protests from a passenger Kay Nelson and others. Police intervened as guards separated them and the rooster died shortly after amid feeble remarks from Berger about cooking it.
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Max
Berger
Kay
Nelson
Ene Berger
Welfare officials dispute timing of state report on aid
Sullivan county welfare officials contested Ray L. Garis state director's claim that the county was about a month behind in social security program work. They said Nashville had received 43 old age assistance applications approved by County Judge T. R. Bandy and Beatrice Garrett, with more to come by August 23. Garis cited eight neighboring counties behind and Johnson City as the only area in good shape. He warned that Bristol aging group members are misled about checks and that only those meeting the three point statute, old age assistance, aid to the blind, and aid to dependent children, will receive payments.
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Sullivan County
Ray L. Garis
Nashville
T. R. Bandy
Beatrice Garrett
Garis
Upper East Tennessee
Sullivan
Carter
Washington
Unicoi
Hancock
Hamblen
Greene
Hawkins
Locke
Johnson City
Bristol
Association For the
Bristol Association
Blountville
Kingsport
Salvation Army
WPA
Sociel Security
Indictments Sought for Lynchers of Negro Victim
Covington Tennessee August episode follows body discovery of 85 year old Albert Gooden. Circuit Judge Baptist calls the lynching a grave crime and urges first degree murder indictments for all participants. Grand jury warned to probe deeply and assess sheriff negligence if any. Gooden was seized at gunpoint by six masked men and taken from Sheriff Vaughan. The body lay under a country road bridge over Beaver Creek.
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Tenn
Tipton County
R. B. Baptist
Albert Gooden
Baptist
Tennessee
Rebels Strike Santander From Five Fronts in Franco Era Push
Franco's forces drive on Santander from five directions as insurgent columns break government lines at Escudo Pass and near Reinosa. Reported captures and heavy casualties surge. government retreat cited amid rapid rebel advance toward coastal target.
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Francisco Franco
Lewinns
Santander
Biscayan
Escudo Pass
Franco
Reitosa
Reinosa
Eden Returns to London for Emergency Shanghai Conference
Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden cut his vacation and flew back to London to chair an emergency conference with ministers over the grave hostilities in Shanghai.
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London
Anthony Eden
Shanghai
Secret location kept as Senate weighs Black qualifications
Washington August 17 AP Members of Senator Black's office staff kept the Alabama senator's whereabouts closely guarded today while the Senate debated his qualifications for the Supreme Court.
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Senator Black
Senate
Supreme Court
Pickets Arrested in Seattle Star Protest
Five American Newspaper Guild pickets including H Richard Seller president of the Seattle chapter were arrested after a clash with union printers on their way to work at the Seattle Star. The guild has been on strike since July 3 against the Star.
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Seattle
H. Richard Seller
Seattle Guild
Seattle Star
WPA Strike in Kingsport Seeks Higher Wages
Fifteen Gibsontown sewer project WPA workers in Kingsport walk out demanding seven cents more per hour from 18 cents. Col. Harry S Berry refuses any compromise, noting statewide layoffs of 1 500 by Sept. 16. City to replace strikers with another WPA crew as negotiations stall.
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Nashville
Harry 5S. Berry
WPA
Kingsport
the Times
Col. Berry
Marines Sail From San Diego to Shanghai to Guard Nationals
Secretary Hull said 2,200 U.S. marines would depart San Diego within ten days to Shanghai to protect Americans amid the China Japan crisis and the U.S. requests a $500,000 appropriation for relief and evacuation costs. About 1,400 Americans and dependents are expected to evacuate this week.
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Hull
San Diego
Shanghai
Department
Congress
China
Maxwell Mr. Hamilton
State Department
Stanley K. Hornbeck
United States
Hornbeck
Japan
Wang
Rescue Planes Start Hunting Russian Fliers
Arctic search expands as American Russian and Canadian aviators gather near Fairbanks to locate six Soviet transpolar fliers missing since last Friday. Stormy conditions thwarted full aerial search while pilots Jimmy Mattern Bob Randall and Zadnoff prepared to aid, refuel, and extend the hunt.
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Alaska
Arctic
Wistes
Jimmy Mattern
Siberia
Sigismund Levaneffsky
Moscow
Mattern
California
Akravik
Northwest Territory
Bob Randall
Arctic Ocean
Washington
Aklavik
Edmonton
Alta
Markonyo
Anadir
Liveria
Pinot Zadnoff
Cape Wellen
Biberian
Krasein
Cape Schmidt
Pole
Fatr
Tobacco Tax Law Enforced in Tennessee Tax Sweep
Nashville Aug 17 A tax department drive targets about 2000 Tennesseans who bought cigarettes from outside the state in small lots. Walter Trebing director of field Inspection warns distress warrants will be issued unless they voluntarily pay the assessed tobacco taxes. He says criminal penalties can be avoided by prompt payment and cooperation. Continued on page eight.
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Nashville
Tax Department
Walter Trebing
Field Inspection Division
Trebing
Bedlam Ruler in Shanghai as Evacuation Continues
Shanghai endures terror as Sino Japanese conflict escalates. American and British women and children flee aboard liners like the Rajputana while refugees swarm waterfront avenues and tenders battle currents and gunfire from the Whangpoo river.
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Shanghai
Elizabeth L. Harris
Associated Press
Orient
Isea
Jefferson
Rajputana
Toad
Thera
Whangpoo River
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