Earhart Search Deepens As Navy Jets Sweep Pacific
Wide scale effort to locate Amelia Earhart continues with Colorado battleship planes scouring waters southeast of Howland Island after Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished on a 2,570 mile New Guinea flight. Reports of a promising radio signal from Montana sparked cautious optimism as officials awaited mid afternoon Monday results.
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Honolulu
Ihe
United States Navy
Amelia Earhart
Howland Island
Colorado
Howland
Miss Earhart
New Guinea
Coast Guard
San Francisco
Sgarad
Montana
Ay Havens
Conract Er
the Great Is Tribune
Tan
Yavin Q
Luke Wright
The
Tribune Cdiriel
C. G. Murfin
14Th Naval District
Phoenix
Murfin
Weather Thundershowers Patchy Tonight Across Regions
Tennessee fair in the east tonight with thundery showers probable elsewhere. Kentucky and Virginia expect generally fair, warm conditions with scattered thundershowers Friday afternoon. North Carolina mostly fair tonight and Friday, with scattered thundershowers in the mountains Friday afternoon.
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Tennessee
Krentucky
Virginia
Cancer drive seeks 3 million for institute near Peiping
Surgeon General Thomas Parran testified before congress that cancer control measures could save 20 000 lives annually. Bills by Senator Bone and Rep Maverick seek up to 3 000 000 for a cancer institute and 1 000 000 yearly for operations, with a national center to coordinate research, treatment and training across states.
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Congress
Peiping
China
Washington
Thomas Parran
Senator Bone
D-Wash
Rep
Maverick
D.-Tex
Senate
House Commerce Committee
Parran
United States
Public Health Service
Government intervention urged to enforce labor bargains
Ada Birmingham editor George Fort Millon of the Chalange News warned in a Have ard College address that government enforcement of collective bargaining is needed. He named public order, banning private vice, and legal responsibility for fair performance, criticizing steel leaders and strikers while stressing legitimate ends over illegal methods.
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Birmingham
Ada
Dubs
George Fort Millon
Chalange News
Capital
Lahor
Haveard College
Tennessee
Milton
Senate labor panel backs wage hour bill in amended form
The Senate labor committee approved an amended Black Connery wage and hour bill authorizing an administrative board to set minimum wages not above 40 cents per hour and a maximum 40 hour work week. The panel struck a provision allowing a labor standards board to raise standards, drawing industry opposition led by John L. Lewis. Exemptions include all industries with existing higher collective bargaining standards and natural workers.
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Washington
Senate Labor Committee
Labor Standards Board
John L. Lewis
Committee For Industrial Organization
Labor- Standards Board
Detroit Newsmen Describe Attacks at Ford Plant
Detroit News reporter Victor Beresford testified at the National Labor Relations Board hearing about beatings of United Auto Workers members at Ford Motor Company. He said witnesses were kicked by four or five people as they tried to distribute union literature at the River Rouge plant in Dearborn.
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Detroit
United Automobile Workers
Ford Motor Company
Nisit
Victor Beresford
Detroit News
National Labor Relations Board
Ford Company
Victor Heather
Richard T. Frankensteen
U.A.W.A
Rouge
Dearborn
Beresford
Herbert Bauer
Cotton Gains In Past Year In US Cultivation
Washington July 8 The Agriculture Department reports cotton in cultivation as of July 1 at 34,292,900 acres, down from 40,960,000 a year ago and below a 37,385,000 ten year average. Abandonment between July 1 and harvest averaged 2.3 percent. Last year ginnings reached 12,398,882 bales, versus a ten year average of 13,200,857. State figures include Virginia 65,000 acres and Tennessee 349,000 acres. Eighteen men and 15 women graduated this year in agriculture and home economics at the University of Stucky College of Agriculture.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Virginia
Tennnessee
University of Stucky College of Agriculture
Heat Wave Proves Deadly Across Midwest and Northeast
July heat claimed at least 17 lives as temperatures rose into the nineties from a midwest to northeast heat wave. Michigan led with eight deaths, New England four, Minnesota Nebraska two each, and Ohio one. Indiana reported prostrations. Chicago and New York faced record highs, while corn fields benefited from hot dry weather.
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Chicago
Middle West
North Atlantic
The
Mercury
Western Plains
Weather Bureau
Washington
Phillipsburg
Kas
New England
Michigan
Minnesota
Nebraska
Ohio
Indiana
New York
Lake Michigan
Missouri
Iowa
Ilinois
Wanping defenders resist Japanese assault in Wanping city
Last minute dispatches report Chinese troops at Wanpinghsien manning outdated fortifications with machine guns and rifles as Japanese forces drive toward the small walled city. In Washington the Senate tax committee barred investigation into President Roosevelt's tax returns. In Nashville Governor Browning moved to arbitrate the Alcoa plant strike.
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Peiping
China
Wanpinghsien
Washington
Senate
House Committee
Roosevelt
Steel dispute goes to court plants reopen
The Little Steel dispute with organized labor moved to the courts as Republic Steel reopened its last strike closed mill. Three other Republic plants in Cleveland resumed operations, with 3,800 men back at work. Police and Ohio national guardsmen protected the plant near Lake Erie while Lee Pressman arrived to discuss court actions and a federal hearing on withdrawing guards from strike centers. A separate note mentions youth hostels modeled on Europe opening in Northern California to promote hiking.
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Associated Press
Cleveland
Little Steel
Republic Steel Corp
Steel Workers Organizing Committee
Steel &Tubes, Inc
Republic
Police
Ohio National Guardsmen
Lake Erie
Lee Pressman
John L. Lewis
Committee For Industrial Organization
Pittsburgh
Columbus
Federal District
Ohio
Pressman
the Nations Labor Relations Board
Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co
Ohio National Guard
Welfare group to gather data on pensions in Tennessee
Nashville reports the welfare department will certify applicants for old age assistance aid to dependent children and the blind. Regional directors and county officials will handle certificates. first recipients will be direct relief and Confederate pensioners. About 200 applications have been received. Shelby County contributes 25,250 dollars for July to September costs.
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Nashville
Welfare Department
Roy L. Garis
Garis
Liden
Shelby
Tennessee
Farm labor groups call July convention in Denver
Gardner Jackson, head of the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union, leads a convention call for July 9 in Denver. The gathering would unite tenant farmers, packing house and cannery unions, and farm hands, aiming to align with the CIO amid labor organizing speculation.
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C,lo.s
Denver
Gardner Jackson
Jackson
Southern Tenant Farmers' Union
Insurgents Fall Before Loyalists In Madrid Front Fight
MADRID July 3 The UP government reports a new offensive to crush insurgent siege positions on Madrid Western front. Gen Jose Miaja led a unit that spread through the ring and captured Brunete Tuesday, driving back a counter drive while advancing to new positions along the Guadarrama river. The communique says ground was held and more positions gained as insurgents moved planes away from other fronts, failing to blunt the salient advance.
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Madrid
Wrurnette
Jose Miaja
Brunete
Guaderrama River
Guadarrama River
Bilbo backs FSR appointment of Mitchell in Mississippi
Senator Theodore Bilbo recommended George T. Mitchell of Tupelo for United States District Attorney for the Northern District of Mississippi. Mitchell would replace Lester Fant whose term ended June 15. A separate Alabama item reports a visitor fined five dollars for drunkenness after refusing to remove a hat in Judge Abernathy's court.
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FSR
Washington
Theodore G. Bilbo
Mississippi
George T. Mitchell Tupelo
Miss
United States
Mississipi
Mitchell
Lester Fant
Girmin! M. Ala
Aberrathy
Two Dead in Alcoa Riot After Strike Clash
Alcoa Tennessee July reports two men shot dead and 28 injured in a gun and club battle between strikers and guards at the Aluminum Company of America plant. Major Ray Crittenden and local union official Lamar Taylor announced militiamen and picket shifts, with reconfirmation of arbitration as a settlement path and additional guards deployed to keep order.
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ALCOA
Tenn
Fred Wetmore
Aluminum Workers' Union
Aluminum Company
Anms
Gordon Browning
Wetmore
Aluminum Company of America
Plart
Ray Crittenden
Tennessee National Guard
Lamar Taylor
Aluminum Workers’ Union
Taylor
Rhymers Ferry
Topaco
N.C
Calderwood
Hensop Stick
W. M. Hurt
Gordon Wolff
The
Lanion
American Fedecration of Labor
Arthur Lively
J. GC. Howard
Department of Sebor
Aleva
Pittsburgh
A. D. Tineddleston
Mare Ager
Browning
Nashville
Huddleston
R. C. Smith
Nnts
Britain plans Jerusalem split sparks Jewish Arab unity talk
July 8 report notes British Royal Commission recommends dividing Holy Land into sovereign Jewish and Arabian states with a new British mandate for Jerusalem Nazareth and Bethlehem. Reaction split among Jews and Arabs with astonishment and fear of upheaval. Some foresee a possible united front to negotiate their futures.
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Jerusatem
Britain
Palestine
Holy Land
Jerusalem
Nazareth
Bethlehem
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Clark D.-Mo
Pone
Clark
Judiciary Committee
Logan D.ky
League of Nations
Widge
Scolts
Washington, Jory
Sung Cheh-Yuan
Hankow
Marco Polo
Mares Polo
Peiping-to-Hankow
Tientsin
Mexico
Midwest
CIO
California
Imortance
Marvid
National Guard
Mmigut
WIE Ie
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