Labor leader backs hour limits to end slump in economy
William Green of the AFL urged maximum hour regulation as key to reduce unemployment. He testified before a Senate unemployment panel and outlined a seven point recovery program including wage maintenance, extended public works, social security expansion, and relief funding.
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Washington
William Green
American Federation of Labor
Congress
Robert H. Jackson
Ickes
Roosevelt
Green
A.F. of L
Wood
William S. Knudsen
General Motors
Knudsen
Unemployment Committee
Tony
Dynamite Blast Kills Three Children and Wounds Mother
In Hamton County near Elizabethton Tennessee a dawn dynamite blast destroyed the Gouge home killing Sonia Gouge nine Luenz Gouge seven Roma Jean Gouge five and critically injuring their mother Pauline Gouge twenty nine. Four suspects are in custody after the blast. sheriff officials say a feud over a past slaying prompted the atrocity and that dynamite charges were placed under the four corners of the house and beneath the bedroom where the children slept.
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Elizabethton
D. Harmon Gouge
Tenn
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Soiiz. Gouge
Luenz. Gouge
Roma Jean Gouge
Pauline Gouge
Shaun
Sonia
Roma Jean
Gouge
Times
Arnold Tollett
Moreland
Roy Asher
Asher
Arnold
Weather notes for Tennessee Kentucky and Virginia
Fair and colder tonight in Tennessee and Kentucky with Saturday fair and a gradual rise in temperatures in the far west. Virginia sees fair and colder weather tonight and Saturday with a chance of snow flurries in the extreme northwest portion tonight.
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Tennessee
Kentucky
Virginia
Navy search widens for giant patrol bomber missing at sea
Three hundred navy planes and 24 warships scoured the Pacific from Santa Barbara to San Diego for a giant service patrol bomber missing with seven aboard. Cadet Seth Hawkins fell from a light plane 100 miles offshore during a routine flight.
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San Pedro
Calif
Santa Barbara
San Diego
Naval
Seth P. Hawkins
Chicago
Pacific
J. H. Mack, Jr
Hawkins
Alva D. Bernhard
Ernest J. King
Bernhard
Contunuea
Girl Named Hudson to Study Bible Based Education
Miss Marian Lee Hudson, 16, in Knoxville, plans to seek a college that teaches the Bible record of man's origin. She will receive $1,000 from her grandfather General Marion Ogle's estate if she attends a school with Biblical views, aiming for graduate work in New York after UT in Tennessee.
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Knoxville
Tennessee
Marian Lee Hudson
New York
University of Tennessee
Maston K. Callison
Britain Strengthens Suez Defenses Amid Mediterranean Tensions
New York dispatch notes Britain moves to bolster Suez Canal defenses against air attacks as Mussolini challenges British control of the Mediterranean. The 100 mile canal lane is described as vital to England’s empire and access to India amid global rearmament and near east unrest.
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New York
Uncle Sam
London
England
Suez Canal
Mussolini
Mediterranean
Palestine
Near East
India
Labor leaders interpret slump before Senate committee
Labor figures and corporate executives testified on the recession’s impact on employment. William Green of the AFL urged a labor view while William Knudsen of General Motors predicted a spring upturn. Homer Martin of the UAW and Robert E. Wood of Sears provided industry perspectives as WPA reported 1,666,997 rolls on Jan 1 with expenditures up to 100 million.
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Green
Senate
Robert E. Wood
Sears, Roebuck and Company
Consumers Goods
Washington
William Green
American Federation of Labor
William Knudsen
General Motors Corporation
Homer Martin
United Automobile Workers of America
Committee For Industrial Organization
Byrnes
D.S.C
WPA
Texas
Government Gets Slight War Edge Near Teruel Front
Franco era fighting around Conucud north of Teruel showed the Spanish government army gaining a margin as government communiques claimed complete defeat of insurgent troops. Insurgents had sought to break through toward Teruel and Valencia while remnants of their garrison fought a sniper war inside the provincial city.
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Hendaye
Teruel
Concud
Madrid
Francisco Franco
Barcelona
Negroes Sentenced to Death for White Girl Attack
Two Memphis men Frank Carter 26 and Theo Thomas 28 were condemned to die by electrocution February 8 after an 11 white and 1 black juror verdict for attacking a white girl on Christmas night in Crittenden County Arkansas. Judge Neil Killough led a one day trial in a crowded old courthouse.
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Marion
Ark
Neil Killough
John Claybrook
Topaz
Crittenden County
Frank
Buster) Carter
Theo Thomas
Memphis
Big Business and New Deal Clash Sparks Public Debate
New York January 7 The clash between big business interests and the government widens after speeches by New Dealer Robert H Jackson and industrialist Wendell L Willkie. Jackson calls for a deliberate shift to high volume production low prices and high wages as a recovery measure.
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New York
New
Robert H. Jackson
Wendell L. Willkie
Jackson
Note Inquiries For Status Of Woman In Moscow
The U S embassy in Moscow delivered a formal note to the Soviet foreign office seeking to know if Ruth Marie Rubens of New York is under arrest and, if so, the charges. The inquiry follows her disappearance from a Moscow hotel on December 9 and identification of her passport as that of Mrs Robinson who vanished. The note requests full information under the 72 hour notification agreement. Reports had suggested possible release and deportation if no charges are found.
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Moscow
U. S
Ruth Marie Rubens
New York
Russia
Washington
Rubens
Donald L. Robinson
State Department
Robinson
Last Minute News Flashes Prompt Nationwide Help Appeal
Glenn Frank as Republican program committee chair asks for aid from all groups beyond party or sectional lines. The Richmond court denies appeals for Cecil Boatwright, convicted in a triple murder at a Lee County road house. Greenwood county may start Buzzard Roost power plant work. Japanese Foreign Office asks for details on a missing actress and her stage manager lover believed to have vanished into Soviet territory. Edsel Ford testifies before a committee on the sale of the Detroit Toledo and Ironton Keat to Pennroad Corporation in 1929 amid railroad restrictions.
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Richmond, Va
State Supreme Court
Cecil Boatwright
Lee County
Tokyo
Foreign Office
Alexandrovsk
Sakhalin
Washington
Jan
Edsel Ford
Detroit Automobile
Ford Interests
Detroit, Toledo
Ironton
Senate filibuster slows anti lynching bill capitol work
Dilatory tactics by senate opponents of the anti lynching bill slowed congressional activity in Washington. Leaders discussed longer senate workdays as the session stretched on. In the House debate on the $1 110 000 000 appropriation for independent agencies progressed slowly.
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Congress
Washington
Senate
House
Italy to Build New Battleships and Escorts
Rome reports immediate construction of two 35 000 ton battleships named Roma and Impero plus 12 destroyers and numerous submarines. Mussolini aims for an ocean going navy with 500 000 tons, surpassing France in heavy ships and extending seapower beyond the Mediterranean.
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Rome
Italy
Europe
Mussolini
Roma
Trieste
Genoa
France
Mediterranean
Vittorio Veneto
Littorio
Protest Filed Over Japanese Attack On English Officers
Shanghai January 7 Major General A P D Telfer Smollett protested Japanese troops assaulting two British Shanghai municipal police officers near the International Settlement line. Inspector West and Sgt Turner reported rough treatment and a nose injury, with a Japanese response denying information and warning of grave consequences.
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Shanghai
A. P. D. Telfer-Smollett
Telfer-Smollett
International Settlement
F. G. West
Sergt
A. R. Turner
West
Turner
Nanchang
Kiangsi
Wuhu
Yangtze River
Nanking
Yangtze
Fay Wray Beaten by Former Servant in Hollywood
Fay Wray suffered head and back bruises after a 30 minute struggle with former cook Mrs. Raymonde Duvall who quit her job and ran amok. Wray and nurse Ethel Jackson were assaulted, while Jackson fled with Wray’s 11 year old daughter Susan to a neighbor as police arrested Duvall on drunken charges.
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Hollywood
Fay Wray
Raymonde Duvall
Miss Wray
Susan
Movie Mogul Claims Cow Learned Fast In Old Chicago
New York Jan 7 Darryl Zanuck says Mrs O Leary s cow took three days and a mile of film to kick the lantern starting the fire in In Old Chicago He notes humans take longer and stresses the film is a two million dollar production The cow subplot amused Zanuck more than the massive crowd of extras used in the scene
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New York
Darry
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