First through sleeper service to Los Angeles from Washington
Colonel Harry S. Berry and Ralph Damon of American Airlines will arrive at McKellar airport tomorrow to inaugurate the first through sleeper service from Washington to Los Angeles and the start of regular service at the new field. The first west bound mail transfer will also be made to the arriving plane. Berry, Damon, and local airport officials will meet to finalize plans for airport use by American Airlines.
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Harry S. Berry
WPA
Ralph Damon
American Airlines, Inc
McKellar Airport
Washington
Los Angeles
American Airlines
Douglas
McKallar Airport
First Air Mail
Howard Long
Col. Berry
Mr. Damon
Sullivan County
General Airport Committee
Kingsport
Bristol
Johnson City
Air Transportation Company
Port
New York
Berry
Philadelphia
Baltimore
Tri-Cities
McKellar Field
Prison ends parade of mule and owner in Luray
In Luray Virginia on August 31 Jesse Knight and his mule were jailed after Knight refused to stop leading the animal through heavy Main Street traffic despite officers warnings. The mule was confined overnight with Knight.
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Luray
Jesse Knight
Knight
Main Street
Weather Outlook for Tennessee Kentucky and Virginia
Partly cloudy with possible local showers tonight and Wednesday. Temperatures steady. Virginia shows similar partly cloudy skies with showers likely in the south portion tonight and Wednesday and little temperature change.
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Tennessee
Kentucky
Virginia
Unemployment census team forms under Roosevelt plan
Five officials named to direct the voluntary unemployment census prepare to meet after Labor Day. The measure, signed by President Roosevelt, uses WPA funds to map joblessness and part time work with aims to finish by April 1 next year.
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Washington
Congress
Associates
Secretaries of Labor and Commerce
Works Progress
Census Bureau
Central Statistical Board
Roosevelt
WPA
Byrnes
D-Sc
Senate
Harry S. Hopkins
Hopkins
National Association of Manufacturers
Vandenberg
R-Mich
Secretary of Labor
Perkins
American Federation of Labor
Illiterate School Board Member Question Rears Law Gap
In Oklahoma City on August 31 Attorney General Mac Q Williamson faces a case about a district school board member who cannot read or write English. No law clearly covers whether such a member can serve. The county attorney asked if literacy is required for board service.
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Oklahoma City
Mac Q. Williamson
Mr. X
Iron lung saves 19 year old as another patient breathes rescue
In Tulsa a 19 year old, Robert Clarence Hicks, survived a respiratory failure after fellow patient Billy Epperson, 14, used his iron lung. Hicks had nearly died from paralysis after a diving board fall. Billy, breathing in St John’s hospital, faced another relapse as attendants moved Hicks for continued care.
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Tulsa
Ohila
Robert Clarence Hicks
Hicks
Morningside Hospital
Billy Epperson
Billy
St. John's Hospital
St. John’s
Jimmy Montgomery
Wichita Falls
Tex
Montgomery
TVA Sells Power to Electric Metallurgical Co at Wilson Dam
TVA announces a 20 year power contract with Electric Metallurgical Co a subsidiary of Union Carbide to supply up to 40000 kilowatt hours by 1941. The buyer can cancel within 90 days for 5000 dollars. Company to build its own transmission line to TVA boundary near Wilson Dam Alabama.
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Knoxville
Tenn
Tennessee Valley Authority
Electric Metallurgical Company
Wilson Dam
Alabama
Union Carbide and Carbon Corporation
TVA
Georgia tobacco growers earn 1937 crop total
Georgia tobacco growers received 15,570,510.64 dollars from the 1937 crop. The amount is about 2.1 million dollars less than the 1936 record revenue, according to the state department of agriculture.
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Atlanta
Georgia
State Department of Agriculture
Fighting Planes Seek Lost Flier In Remote Area
SHREVEPORT LA Aug 31 Formations of fighting planes were dispatched from Barksdale field today in search of flying cadet Jay Edgerton of Kelly field San Antonio who failed to report yesterday after a student flight of 13 planes ran into bad weather. A burned out flare was found near Grapeland Tex believed by army officers to explain reports at Palestine Tex that a burning plane had been seen falling. Parachute flares cast a brilliant glow have been mistaken for falling planes on several occasions in the past an officer said Edgerton was believed to be in one remote area where immediate telephone communication is not available Edgerton enlisted from Kenly North Carolina
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Shreveport
Barksdale Field
Jay Edgerton
Kelly Field
San Antonio
Grapeland
Tex
Palestine
Edgerton
Kenly
North Carolina
Leaders Predict Huge Cotton Crop Across Six States
Atlanta Aug 31 The Monthly Review of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta estimates the six states in the sixth district will harvest 912000 bales of cotton this year, up 10.2 percent from 1936 and the largest since 1931. The national cotton crop is put at 15593000 bales, up over 3 million from last season. The report also notes gains in corn oats wheat and other crops, while peach production falls, and flags employment payrolls and retail trade trends in the district.
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Atlanta
Federal Reserve District
Federal Reverve Bank of Atlanta
United States Department of Agriculture
Alabama
Morida
Georgia
Louisiana
Missisippi
Tennessee
Monthly Review
Department i ‘Commerce
Bus Crash Kills Seven Near Goshen Indiana
Seven people die and about 20 are hospitalized after a heavily loaded Greyhound bus and a sedan collide on road 15 north of Goshen Indiana. Passengers include A G Carpentier from Iowa City and Mrs James Kelleher of Albany New York.
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Goshen
Ind
Here
Greyhound
A. G. Carpentier
Iowa City
Iowa
James Kelleher
Albany
N. Y
Raymond J. Buskin
St. Louis
Carpentier
Cincinnati
Lee Callahan
Toledo
Chicago
Cleveland
Elkort
Farmer Pleads Guilty To Bigamy In Slaying Case
Belzoni Mississippi August 31. H E Barnett 41 a tenant farmer pleaded guilty to bigamy after the state withdrew a murder charge accusing him of killing his 11 year old son Jordan. He was sentenced by Judge S F Davis to eight years in the penitentiary. Prosecution said its case lacked evidence to prove guilt beyond doubt and other charges of assault and battery and adultery were dropped. Jury selection delayed by bias among prospective jurors and extra panels were summoned today as trial proceedings continued.
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Belzoni
Miss
H. E. Barnett
Jordan
Barnett
S. F. Davis
Earl Thomas
Thomas
Davis
Chinese propose full redress over Dollar liner bombing
Washington on August 31 reports the Chinese government offered the United States full financial and moral redress for the bombing of the Dollar liner, the President Hoover, reacting to the incident with the AP dispatch from the capital.
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Washington
United States
Hoover
Comer Withdraws From Alabama Senate Race
Comer a prominent Alabama textile manufacturer ends his bid for the senate seat vacated by Hugo L. Black. The race is now temporarily held by Mrs. Dixie Graves as the political landscape shifts in Athens.
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Athens
Ala
Donald Comer
Alabama
Hugo L. Black
Supreme Court
Dixie Graves
Labor board rejects contract at National Electric
The National Labor Relations board ruled today that a contract between National Electric Products Corp and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers is invalid.
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Washington
National Labor Relations Board
National Electric Products Corporation
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
Subpoenas Issued as Lynching Probe Reopens in Tipton County
Ten new witnesses from Mason, Tennessee, are called to testify as the Tipton county grand jury reconvenes to probe the first lynching in the area since the Civil War. Governor Browning offered a 5000 reward for information leading to convictions of the masked assailants who abducted Albert Gooden.
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Covington
Tenn
Tipton County
Browning
Albert Gooden
Mason
Here
Gooden
Chester Doyle
W. J. Vaughan
Shelby County
Memphis
George C. Watkins
Second Mercy ship is bombed in battle area
In Shanghai's French concession cholera outbreaks and war tighten peril. An unidentified bomber hit the Italian steamer Lung Shan near Woosung while Japanese forces seize Woosung forts and press an assault on Shanghai. Chiang Kai-Shek appeals for foreign intervention as disease and dead tolls rise.
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Lung Shan
Shanghai
Woosung
United States Navy
Augusta
Hongkew
Soochow Creek
China
Whangpoo
Chiang Kai-Shek
Chiang
Nanking
Wallace Starts Cotton Loans to Lift 1937 Prices
Washington August 31 Secretary Wallace opened the 1937 cotton loan program and announced loans up to 9 cents a pound with 3 cents subsidy on 65 percent of base production. Eligibility requires compliance with next year’s controls and sale by July 1. payments depend on appropriations and receipts must be kept.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Wallace
Drinks Talk for Envoys Who Reside at National Capital
Washington report recalls diplomats in the capital using lavish social events to convey messages. Hosts like Michael MacWhite describe diplomacy as more talk through parties than speeches while journalists note the social web created by foreign emissaries.
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National Capital Society
Diplomatic Corps
Associated Press
Kingsport Times
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