State Officials Accused of Not Pressing Laws in Nashville
The county grand jury reported no indictments but described a program of overweight truck law non enforcement by highway patrol officials for trucking industry consideration. It cited lack of cooperation from truck operators and patrols, and a demand for an explanation of possible graft or political support connected to tax commissioner Walter Stokes Jr. and officials Edwards Williams and Cook, with alleged monthly payoffs from truck firms.
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Nashville
Highway Patrol
Walter Stokes, Jr
Gordon
Homer Cook
Stokes
Jones
Williams
Commissioner Edwards
Joe
Edwards
Charles Porter
Southeastern
Patrol
Weather summary for multiple states
Fair tonight and Saturday with little temperature change in Tennessee. Partly cloudy to fair in Virginia tonight and Saturday with slightly warmer in the northwest. Alabama expects fair to partly cloudy skies with gentle to moderate winds along coasts turning easterly. Kentucky reports partly cloudy tonight and Saturday with slightly warmer conditions in the eastern portion.
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Virginia
Alabama
Kentucky
Tatting Termed Thrilling Treat at Iowa State Fair
DES MOINES IOWA Aug 26 In a playful contest Des Moines furrier EH Mueller won the state fair sweepstakes for a bed spread after nearly four years of work He beat women who tat for sport and earned a blue ribbon and $2 Mueller valued the spread at 25 plus 600 hours He offered to skip the jibes if someone would take it off his hands.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Modes
Iowa
Mueller
Des Moines
Satterfield Sounds Alarm on Intervention in Elections
Rep Dave B Satterfield addressing Virginia Democratic women warned against federal influence in state elections. He urged vigilance against federal money and employees being used to sway voters and urged that purity in elections safeguards liberties and future democracy. The Richmond Democrat cited past tyranny and urged state action to prevent federal control of government processes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond
Dave B. Satterfield
D-Va
Virginia
Congress
Dagen
Dentifies Hines With Gang Leader Dutch Schultz Visit
In New York on August 26 1935 Dutl ey Brothivell owner of a Fairfield Conn riding stables testified in the conspiracy trial of Tammany District Leader James J Hines that he saw Hines with the gang boss Dutch Schultz and his lieutenant Lulu Rosenkranz during a visit to the stables. The witness described Schultz as an enthusiastic horseman and recounted the mob leader riding through Connecticut countryside while Schultz was a fugitive from federal agents in an income tax case.
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E. C. Daniel
New York
Dutley Brothivell
Fairfield
Conn
Stademy
Tammany
James J. Hines
Hines
Dutch Schultz
Mr. Hines
Lloyd Paul Strysser
Buss
Tammany Boss
New Wages Hours Law Puts Youths Out of Work
Gastonia North Carolina Aug UPi The new wage hour law affects youths under 18 in cotton textile mills Many mills posted notices setting September 1 as the deadline for workers under 18 to quit Their options include seeking work in other fields as state law allows 16 year olds to work but federal rules bar manufacturing or mining work for younger youths The plant foreman laments the impact but sees no remedy and the matter is noted to continue on Page 8
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
WB. Raguale
Gastonia
S.C
Gaston County
Besa
Thease
North Carolina
Bomb rocks biblical city. Arabs slain and wounded
A loud blast at a crowded vegetable market in Jaffa, Palestine, killed at least 26 Arabs and wounded 74, with 10 in dangerous condition. Police faced an Arab mob attacking Barclays Bank and other shops as troops and armored cars moved in to restore order.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James A. Meills
Jaffa
Palestine
Barclays Bank
Anglo-Palestine Bank
Tel Aviv
Barclay's Bank
Market Place
Haifa
Holy City
Mediation group may study strike in Tennessee towns
Nashville Aug 26 a proposal from TE P president Joe G Guild Jr urges a mediation effort with Tennessee governor Chattanooga Nashville and a third city mayor to meet with two representatives from each side to settle the linemen strike. The TE P says it is ready to adjust differences and that minority groups within CLO AF of L and independent employees remain a hurdle to a single agreement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nashville
Tennessee
Chattanooga
Tennessee Electric Power Company
Joe G. Guild, Jr
T.E.P
Guild
CLO
AF. of L
Turner released as bond made in shooting case
Claude Turner, 27, a Borden Mil employee, was released on $1,000 bond after being charged with shooting fellow worker Gene Isenhour, 33, on the plant’s third floor during a dispute. Isenhour remained hospitalized with a bullet wound but was expected to recover. preliminary hearing not yet scheduled. Police sought the pistol Turner said he lost while fleeing through a nearby field.
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Claude Turner
Bor
Gene Tsenhour
Isenhour
Turner
Turr
Lee Borden
Human Life Held Cheap in Harlan County
Harlan Ky Aug 26 The grand jury denounced its record of violent deaths noting that human life is the cheapest commodity in Harlan county The panel added 12 murder indictments to the 17 pending at session start and said child desertion is the county s most serious problem The report warned this will lead to greater crime as children are deserted and left as waifs on streets alleys and highways
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harlan
Harlan County
Circuit Court
Roosevelt Farley In Agreement After Conference At White House
President Roosevelt said he and James A Farley were in complete agreement after a political conference reviewing states where the New Deal is an issue Farley pressed for a Maryland push against Senator Millard Tydings Hopkins condemned WPA fund raising from relief workers The president approved Hopkins statement Farley left Waite House for New York Also noted planter J A Hutcheson 65 of Ripley died in Memphis after co owning a Lauderdale county plantation later sold to the state for a penal farm He is survived by a widow seven children including Dr Henry Hutcheson of Nashville
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Eye Park
Roosevelt
James A. Farley
Farley
Poughkeepsie
N. C
Chattanooga
Harry Hopkins
WPA
Hopkins
Memphis
J. A. Hutcheson
Ripley
Supreme Court
Colin P. McKinney
Lauderdale County
Hutcheson
Henry Hutcheson
Nashville
Tuttle death ruled self inflicted in England poloist
A coroner jury ruled Stiles E. Tuttle 27 year old Yale graduate and polo player died by his own action in a woods near Astry England after body and a new shotgun were found. The verdict cited evidence of premeditation and mental unsoundness in the fatal shooting.
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Tuttle
Astry
England
Stiles E. Tuttle
Yale
Mid Midwest and Middle Atlantic Key in 1930s Party Battles
Washington Aug S6 reports a PA survey showing big inter party battles will be fought in the mid west and middle Atlantic this fall. GOP leaders meet in Indianapolis to map campaign while a Capehart Farms rally near Washington Indiana marks the first major GOP event. Democratic efforts focus on Pennsylvania with a Hershey rally for Earle Jones ticket. Maine election activities loom with GOP strength in Senate and House as Dems eye seats, while Mass GOP predicts up to 70 House pickups.
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Washington
Aug
Mid-West
Middle Atlantic
Indianapolis
Capehart Farms
Ind
Pennsylvania
Hershey
George Earle
Charles Alvin Jones
Maine
House
Victor Harding
Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee
Farley
Augusta
Rep. Martin
Massachusetts
Republican Congressional Campaign Committee
Tennessee girls confess slaying in Kentucky border case
Two young vagabonds from Tennessee mountains, Jean Brooks and Beulah Honeycutt, accused each other of shooting Felix Shannon, a 51 year old farmer. Sheriff Earnest Burkett said both women gave oral confessions after a lengthy ride and witnesses had seen them near Shannon’s home the day after the murder.
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Fairfield. IU
Tenessee
Felix Shannon
Mount Eric
Ub. Farmer
Earnest Burkett
Jean Brooks
Elizabethton
Tenn
Beulah Honeycutt
Johnson City
Shannon
Jay
Burkett
Side
Honeycutt
Bross
Government to Buy Surplus Wheat This Week
Agriculture department to purchase surplus American wheat for export and domestic relief this week and next Monday. Roosevelt appoints Donald Wakefield Smith of Pennsylvania to the National Labor Relations Board. Deep South states to meet in November to plan reforms addressing social economic and political ills. Philadelphia prison deaths blamed on guards in Klondike isolation building. coroner notes punishment of unruly convicts.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Smith
NLRB
Hyde Park
Roosevelt
Donald Wakefield Smith
Pennsylvania
National Labor Relations Board
Birmingham
Ala
Deep South
Philadelphia
Charles H. Hersch
Klondike
Bray youth case deepens as evidence grows
Commonwealth Attorney Alagan Richmond said he is continuing to build the murder case against 18 year old J. D. Bray Jr. for the August 3 killing of 14 year old Willie Mac Gentry near Bray Bay. He refused to reveal new clues and said evidence will be kept in his office until Bray goes to trial. The body was found in woods with a bullet hole in the temple and a bullet removed from the neck during autopsy in Kingsport, Tennessee. Sheriff J B Quillin declined to disclose further details beyond general facts.
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Gate City
Alagan Richmond
J. D. Bray, Jr
Gassard
Here
Willie Mac
Scott
Bray
Jaya Richmond
Gentry
Kingsport
Tenn
J. B. Quillin
Richmond
Coroner names higher up in Philadelphia prison deaths
Philadelphia coroner Charles H. Hersch charges a prison higher up with responsibility for four hunger strikers who died after heat punishment in punishment cells. He says warrants will be issued for four to six guards and officials and promises to break the case wide open. Guards Francis Smith and Alfred W. Brough are held as material witnesses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Philadelphia County
Charles H. Hersch
Hersch
Francis Smith
Alfred W. Brough
TVA Hearing Resumes Probing Marble Lease Case
Knoxville extends inquiry into the Berry marble case as a congressional committee revisits alleged private utility subsidization of news and an attempt to hijack the public power program. TVA board chair Haredict A. Morgan reiterates Lilienthal on how the legal staff handled Berry and associates claims, while Berry, aged 71, recalls illness during negotiations and denies corruption.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Knoxville
Tenn
TVA
Chattanooga
Haredict A. Morgan
David E. Lilienthal
TWA
U S Protests Japanese Attack on Civilian Airliner
The United States expressed emphatic objection to the August 24 1938 attack by Japanese planes on a China National Aviation Corporation commercial airliner near Macao. Ambassador Grew delivered the note noting American life and property were endangered and pilot Hugh L Wood survived.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
United States
Japan
Hull
Joseph C. Grew
Tokyo
Hall
Hugh L. Wood
Winfield
Kas
Oss
Pan- American Airways
China National Aviation Corporation
Macao
Tam
Pilot Wood
Freedom of Press Contempt Charges Highlight Case Fight
Los Angeles Times publisher Times-Mirror faced five contempt counts as Superior Judge Emmet Wilson declared the corporation guilty on all counts for editorials on court cases. The fine totals 300 dollars on one count and 100 dollars on four counts, with Harry Chandler and L D Hotchkins also convicted and fined. The Times plans appeals to defend freedom of speech and press.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
Times-Mirror Company
Los Angeles Times
Batte Lofay
The
Times
Five County
Judes Emmet Wilson
T. B. Cosgrove
U. S. Supreme Court
Dom
Wilson
Harry Chandler
L. D.hotchkins
Douglas Aircraft Factory
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Keynoter
Schultz
Biblical
Power Company
Bond
Mill
Maryland
Millard Tydings
Mid- West
Tennessee Girls
U. S
Steele
Rollaw Steele
Temnessee
Mitchell Long
Knoxvill
Ficket
Offier
Bray Bay
U.S
Flanes
Joseph
Grew
SAPS
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