Senate Committee Approves Black Court Nomination
Democratic leaders advanced Senator Black Alabama toward confirmation with a 13 to 4 vote by the Senate Judiciary Committee. Debate centered on constitutional questions with opponents seeking further questioning. a delay motion failed 11 to 6. The next step was anticipated to push the nomination to final approval amid Republican opposition.
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Supreme Court
Senator Black
Alabama
Senate Judiciary Committee
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UNC
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D.-Neb
Black
Weather forecast for Tennessee Virginia and Kentucky
Fair and warmer in Tennessee tonight and Tuesday with clouds in places. Virginia sees fair skies and warmer conditions in the west and north tonight and Tuesday. Kentucky remains fair with warmer air in the east tonight and partly cloudy conditions Tuesday.
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Farr
Tennessee
Virginia
Kentucky
Labor to Support Dewey for Office in New York
The American Labor Party endorsed Thomas E. Dewey for Manhattan district attorney, backing his bid alongside LaGuardia. Party officials argued Dewey’s track record of charging rackets would bring dignity and zeal to the office and sever the link between Tammany Hall and the underworld.
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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
Woman Indicted in Mass for Two Murders in Hemiston
Hemiston county grand jury indicted 31 year old Année Hahn today on two counts of murder in the slayings of George Gsellman 67 on July 6 and Jacob Wagner 78 on June 3. Prosecutor called the case the biggest mass murder in the country as police pursue nine other unexplained deaths.
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Cincinnati
Dudley Miller Gutcalt
Hemiston County
Année Hahn
George Gsellman
Jacob Wagner
Charles §. Bell
John Bauerle
Hahn
Patrick Hayes
George Schuttle
Walter Hart
Frank M. Gusweiler
Plant to reopen Green River Chair Company in Livermore
The Green River Chair Company, idle about two months due to a strike, will reopen tomorrow in Livermore. The plant employs 150 workers. Terms of the settlement were not announced and a union contract was to be signed today.
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Livermore
Green River Chair Company
Bleached Indian Bones Reveal Legend of Love War
Niobrara Nebraska August six report by Larry Hall details archaeologists led by Dr. H. Bell of the University of Nebraska uncovering bones at a hilltop fort where the Poncha and Omaha tribes are said to have clashed. The dig reveals a story of a legendary love that sparked tribal war and a motif of dismemberment associated with the Poncha.
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Niobrara
Neb
Helen of Troy
Ponta
H. Bell
University of Nebraska
Ponea
Tke Niobrara and
Missouri Rivers
Nebraska
Fonda
Great Plains
Dr. Bell
Mattern Joins Wide Hunt For Missing Flyers
Jimmie Mattern joins the search for Sigismund Levaneffsky and four companions after arriving in Fairbanks Alaska from California. A Soviet flyer Vartanian leads the aerial pursuit with support from Fairbanks locals as weather conditions favor the Arctic search. Crosson coordinates the effort with Alaska aviation figures to locate the missing Russian plane.
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Alaska
A. Vartanian
Juneau
Seattle
Sigismund Leysneffsky
Vartanian
Jduneau
Glacier Highway
Washington
Irkutsk
Siberia
Levaneffsky
Jimmie Mattern
Qateland
Galif
Sigismuda Levaneffsky
Beek Clocs
148Th
Moscow
Fairhams
Arctic
Hank” Jones
Mattern
Crosson
Siberian
America
Joe Crosson
Committee OKays Deficiency Figure in Major Budget Cut
The House appropriations committee approved a deficiency appropriation of 78.502 million dollars after trimming 42.8935 million from final budget estimates for a large supply measure. Key items include a 23 million dollar three year public building program outside Washington and a 33 million dollar loan support for federal land banks and farm mortgage credits. Provisions also touch maritime commission budgets and post office projects in New York.
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Washington
Hose Appropriations Committee
District of Coumbia
Secretary of the Treasury
Federal
Farm Mortgage Corporation
Congress
Roosevelt
Maritime Commission
Commission
TEP seeks final power approval in Nashville
Tennessee Electric Power Company wins state Utilities Commission support for a 2 million dollar steam generating plant and will apply to the Federal Power Commission for final approval. The ruling passed 9 to 1, with dissent by Leon Joursimon Jr. TVA power availability is noted, but majority says generation is cheaper than purchase. Public benefit cited if TVA and TEPCilo proceed with broader power arrangements.
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Nashville
Tennessee Electric Power Company
State Utilities Commission
Federal Power Commission
Washington
State Commission
Leon Joursimon, Jr
TVA
Porter Dunlap
W. H. Turner
Tennessee Valley Authority
Nordmeer completes Atlantic survey flight to Long Island Sound
The German seaplane Nordmeer completed a survey flight in the international race to establish an air route across the Atlantic. It landed in Long Island Sound after a 2392 mile hop from the Azores, catapulted from its mothership Schwabenland off Horta at 210 p.m. EST yesterday, averaging about 150 miles per hour. The Nordmeer, an oilburner, had flown from Lisbon to the Azores last Friday.
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Nordmeer
Atlantic
Long Island Sound
Azores
Schwabenland
Horta
Azores Islands
Lisbon
Portugal
Remorse Over Slain Son Grips Missouri Mother
St Louis August 16 Police said Mrs Lenore King 27 held in poison death of her 6 year old son Jack King Jr grew increasingly remorseful and told them I would give anything in the world to have my boy back again Jail kept Sunday as church school classmates helped with funeral services Nearly 203 persons filled the small church where Jack formerly attended Officials said she probably would have attended if she had asked She saw her son's body for the last time Friday in the morgue and signed a statement she put rat poison on a hamburger.
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ST. Louis
Lenore King
Jack King, Jr
Jack
Margue
Jas
Copeland calls Supreme Court nomination insult to Americans
New York Senator Royal S. Copeland denounces President Roosevelt's nomination of Alabama Democrat Senator Black to the Supreme Court as an insult to the American people. Knoxville warrants end after decades, with city warrants officially discontinued as of today.
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New York
Royal S. Copeland
Roosevelt
Senator Black
Alabama
United States Supreme Court Bench
Knoxville
Evacuation Plans Completed For Nanking Women and Children
The United States embassy completed evacuation arrangements for American women and children from Nanking, guiding them up the Yangtze River to Hankow rather than downstream to Shanghai. This action follows the embattled situation around Shanghai as the city endures ongoing hostilities.
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Nanking
United States
Yangtze River
Hankow
Shanghai
Rebels Smash Loyal Defense in Santander Province
Reports from August 16 describe Spanish insurgents advancing through Venta Nueva toward Reinosa and Santander as Franco’s four divisions push north in a renewed offensive. Government defenses crumble under barbed wire, machine guns, and high-altitude assaults. casualties include 45 wounded and captured soldiers amid intense fighting and bombardment.
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Santander
Venta Nueva
Reinosa
Francisco Franco
Franco
Burgos
Sancillo
Bay of Biscay
Judge rules out railway merger in Maryland case
Baltimore August 16 Chief Judge Samuel K Dennis barred the Alleghany and Chesapeake Corporations merger key holdings of the Van Sweringen railway system He issued a permanent injunction against the plan saying the legal and illegal features are so interwoven the plan must be treated as a whole The minority class voting stock cannot be compelled to join the merger in light of contractual stock arrangements and the suit was brought by Tri Continental Selected Industries Broseco Aldebaran and the University of Pennsylvania to contest the merger plan
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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
Konoya critics sparked by speech as Shanghai siege deepens
In Tokyo a prince premier addressed the house of peers drawing fire from his son, a Princeton student. Meanwhile in Shanghai Chinese forces pushed to the Japanese naval headquarter and Paotung, as starshells lit the night and shells rained on the Whangpoo. Foreign evacuees fled the city while US ships and Red Cross prepared for refugees.
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Prince Konoya
Japan
House of Peers
Tokio
Princeton University
Konoyea
Shanghai
Whangpoo River
Horglow
Hongkew Park
Woosung
Whangpo
Shenghai
Whangwoo
Annu
Japanese Troop Reinforcements Reported In Sino-Japanese War
On board the President McKinley between Kobe and Shanghai the AP correspondent says Japan is pouring thousands of troops into Chinese war zones. Transports carry 20 000 troops toward Shanghai to reinforce about 80 000 already in China. Rail stations and trains in Japan display flags as the nation cheers the war effort.
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Taft
Shanghai
United States
Manila
McKinley
Jefferson
Hoover
United States Marine
Red Cross
Yangtze River
U. S
Kobe
Shanghat
Japan
China
Woman built air force aids China in war against Japan
Madame Chiang Kai-shek, Wellesley educated wife of the Chinese leader, commands the nation s air forces and built up a 580 plane fleet with 15 flying bases. Japanese squadrons attacked Chinese air bases as Shanghai bombing tragedy prompted investigations and international concern.
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China
Japan
Nanking
Chiang Kab-Shek
Shang
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