Judge Refuses Hanover Oath for District Attorney General
Memphis July 8 Judge Phil Wallace refused to administer the oath to Joseph Hanover governor Brown ing's appointee for district attorney general. Wallace named Preston Battle pro tem attorney general. Hanover sought next steps after the ruling, arguing the appointment lacks authority under constitutional provisions and Tennessee code.
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Memphis
Phil Wallace
Joseph Hanover
Browning
Wallace
Preston Battle
W. Tyler McLain
Hanover
Gil
Ali
McLain
Woodbury Sees Candidate Relief From Polls
In Woodbury on July 8, 44 Cannon county citizens seek candidate relief as 28 seek major offices and 40 run for the board of essence. One farmer invited all pollitters to vote, while Alacksmith posts a sign reading No Candidates Allowed.
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Woodbury
Cannon County
Board of Essention
Veteran 104 Attends Major League Tilt in Philadelphia
Veteran of the Confederate cause Jim Handock aged 104 traveled from New Orleans with a comrade to Philadelphia for a baseball game. Police questioned an alert bystander at the ballpark. The veteran plans to return to the Confederate Soldiers Home in New Orleans.
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Philadelphia
Jim Handock
Weirs
Slobe
Gettyshurs
Blue and Tie Gray
Eime
Alvn —Watlching
New Orleans
Dutch government strips citizenship of volunteers in Spain
The Netherlands government decided today to deprive Dutch volunteers who fought in Spain of their citizenship, while allowing them to return home. The move affects those who joined foreign actions and raises questions about allegiance and postwar status for the volunteers.
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The
Netherlands
Spain
Themi
Weather Showers in West and Tennessee Regions
Weather outlook reports showers across extreme west portions this afternoon or tonight and east and central parts tonight. Saturday brings fair conditions in extreme west areas, with warmer trends in the west overnight and in eastern portions. Virginia shows showers tonight and Saturday with a possible pattern shifting to lighter rain in western areas Saturday afternoon. Sunday looks generally fair and warmer, with interior regions cooler late Saturday.
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Kentlcry
Tennessee
Wight
Virginia
East
South
Child Princess in an Ivory Tower
New York July 8 inquiry into Barbara Hutton von Haughwire Reventlow sheds light on her sheltered early life as a wealth insulated child princess. The piece traces her youth, dream-filled world, and later pursuit of romance, noting her 1934 book and echoes of Tennyson.
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Helen Welshimer
Central Press
New York
Barbara Hutton von Haughwire-Reventlow
Littie
Jittie
Woman Killed in Northwest Airlines Crash in Montana
A Northwest Airlines transport with eight passengers and two crew crashed on takeoff at Killings, Mont. One woman, Mrs. N S Mackay of Evanston, died after reaching St. Vincent's hospital in Billings. Her husband was hospitalized with unknown injuries. Mrs. W T Tisdale of Sloan, Neb., was treated for non life threatening injuries. Five other passengers were released after minor injuries.
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Northwest Airlines
N. S. Mackay
Evanston
St. Vincent's Hospital
Billings
W. T. Tisdale
Sloan
B. Cy Fates
A. T. Peterson
Northwest
Bomb Blast Kills Four in Holy Land Conflict
Four Arabs died and 36 wounded when a bomb exploded at Jerusalem's Jaffa Gate bus station amid Jewish Arab clashes in Palestine. The British reinforced Haifa and deployed forces to quell rioting as tensions rose across the region.
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Palestine
Orient
Spain
Jerusalem
Jaffa
Repulse
Haifa
Britain
Blonde leaps from hotel window saves life net
In New York a blonde woman Mo Viel Strong 24 leaped from a sixth floor window into a life net after a confrontation with Sidney Smith 47 of Los Angeles. She broke her left leg but survived as witnesses and Smith aided in the dramatic rescue. Smith, a naval supplies salesman, denied wrongdoing and was released.
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New York
Moviel
Charles McGowan
Sidney Smith
Los Angeles
McGowan
Smith
Miss Strong
Belmont Plaza
Staying Blamed on Witch Doctor by Young Farmer
In Concord North Carolina July 3 a defense of temporary insanity was planned for William Baxter Parnell a 32 year old tenant farmer held on murder charges after witnesses said he stabbed his sister in law Martha Jane Fink to death while under the influence of a root he chewed obtained from a negro woman known as witch doctor Aunt Jenny Morris testified she gave him dust to rub for luck and denied supplying the root. The coroner ordered him held without bond for the grand jury as his attorney announced plans to rely on insanity plea.
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Soncord
N. Cc
PIA
William Baxter Parnell
Furman James
Per+ nell
Reiy
Martha Jane Fink
John Ricks
Bert S. Ball
Parnell
Martha Jane
Miners Describe Raven Rock Exile in Harlan Trial
At the Harlan labor trial in London Kentucky prosecutors call witnesses from the R C Tway Coal Company mine section known as Raven Rock. Miners testified they worked on their knees and sometimes in water making it hard to earn a living. Superintendent Russ Collins denied sending workers there for union membership and cited a wage differential to offset any differences. He noted one miner asked to be sent there and cited no general practice of exile. Commonwealths Attorney Sylvester Little revealed that Jack Reed, a tourist camp worker near Corbin, where Frank White was shot, has been jailed.
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R. C. Tway Coal Company
Raven Rock
Harlan Labor
Harlan Coal
Russ Collins
Thh
Tiway
United Mine Workers of
Ametica
Raver Rock
Comonwealths
Sylvester Little
Jack Reed
Corbin
Frank White
Knox County Names New Election Commissioner in Parkey
Charles J. Brown was ousted from the Knox County election panel and Liebert Parkey named as commissioner. Brown vows to challenge via certiorari, superseders, and an injunction. Attorneys W. Kennerly and Baxter Lee plan litigation as the three to three board vote triggers state officer review.
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Nashville
Charles J. Brown
Knox County
Liebert Parkey
Brown
Parkey
State Board of Elections
Knox Commission
Marke
W. Kennerly
Baxter Lee
Employment gains spark late summer factory activity
A nationwide sample shows scattered gains in textiles shoes and construction as manufacturers resume hiring after summer pauses. Industry analysts note seasonal factors and planned shutdowns, with the Industrial Conference Board estimating over 4 million workers must return to jobs to restore last year’s recovery levels. Unemployment stands at about 10.3 million, down from the prior week’s 6.2 million.
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Breen
New York
Wall Street
Financial
National Industrial Conference Board
Ex convict held in Oswald farm killings south st paul
Robert McLeod former farmhand at the Oswald farm in Osseo was captured by South St Paul Patrolman Ernest Whaley and admitted to killing Mr and Mrs Oswald and farmhand John Kujawa. He Motived the slaying according to officials. He sold two cows stolen from the Oswald farm to Farmers Union Livestock Commission staff who alerted police. Whaley halted McLeod after a chase and recovered the suspect. He had returned to South St Paul to cash a 143 dollar check from the cattle sale. State Crime Bureau records list him as a paroled life term prisoner from North Dakota prison at Bismarck serving under habitual criminal.
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South ST. Paul
Robert McLeeed
Kenneth Oswald
Ossep
Ernest Whaley
South St Paul
Whaley
B. J. McAlpine
Oswald
McLeod
State Crime Bureau
Robert McLeod
North Dakota
Bismarck
Children Overcome by Gas at Pittsburgh Pool
July 1 report states chlorine gas from a tank at a North Side swimming pool incapacitated about 30 children. They were rushed to two hospitals. officials say none are seriously ill. Also noted are an expedition sighting near Lee's Ferry and remarks by U.S. Ambassador Bullitt on murder of civilians, plus TVA criticism by A. Morgan in Knoxville.
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Pittsburgh
Bullitt
Reims
France
United States
William ©. Bullite
Former Governor Seeks Democratic Nomination in Massachusetts
Former Governor James M. Curley announces his candidacy for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination in Boston. He accuses Hurley of hostility to President Roosevelt and condemns the governor as a betrayer while urging a loyal ticket to combat national economic distress and secure leadership.
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Boston
Massachusetts
James M. Curray
Curley
Hurley
Roosevelt
Democratic Party
Pope Loses Appeal in Tax Case Over Gas Firm
July 9 Nashville report: Chief Justice Grafton Green refused to interfere with Chancellor Howell’s injunction restraining Pope from collecting 571,156.23 in corporation excise taxes from Memphis Natural Gas Co. The supreme court denied the writ of certiorari and supersedeas, sending the case back to Davidson County court. The Memphis firm argued interstate business exempt but judges noted tax powers may be challenged in chancery court and restrained if beyond authority. The matter centers on intrastate gross earnings taxation versus interstate operations.
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Grafton Green
R. B. C. Howell
Lewis
Pope
Memphis Natural Gas
Supreme Court
Howell
Davidson County
Numet
Hoy H. Beeler
Walter Stokes, Jr
Green
Chancery Court
Nazi airman ridicules Ickes helium ban in Germany
Dr. Hugo Eckener, veteran airship commander, condemned Secretary Ickes and the US veto on exporting helium to Germany. He argued American politics drive the ban as he spoke at Zeppelin museum opening on Count Zeppelin’s 100th birthday, noting helium’s military value and limits on lighter-than-air travel.
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Germany
Hugo Eckener
Harold J.ickes
Eckener
United States
Ickes
Roosevelt
White House
Dr Belsener
Washington
Musewn
Zeppelin
Ferdinand von Zeppelin
Roosevelt cites nation on mental migration for new security
President Roosevelt declared the nation on a mental migration seeking new security and urged cooperative effort to back social and economic reforms. He spoke at the Northwest Territory bicentennial, stressing government as the people and urging courage to choose forward-looking leadership.
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Marietta
Ohio
Roosevelt
Northwest Territory
Morgan Accused of Attacking for TVA Post
Knoxville July 8 James Lawrence Fly TVA general counsel called Dr Arthur B Morgan’s chancery suit to regain his VA chairman post a direct attack on President Roosevelt. The suit targets TVA and directors Harcourt A Morgan and David E Lilienthal, seeks back salary 2916.6 and voiding the President’s removal, with the key issue being executive power.
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Knoxville
James Lawrence Fly
TVA
Chancery
Arthur B. Morgan
United States
Harcourt A. Morgan
David E. Lilienthal
Roosevelt
Fly
Dr. Morgan
Question of Power Fly
President Roosevelt Praises Bulkley in Ohio Primary Tour
President Roosevelt spoke in Ohio praising Senator Robert Bulkley during a Northwest Territory anniversary event on his cross country tour. He contrasted Bulkley with his opponent Governor White and criticized lawmakers drafting statutes and government machinery.
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Marirtta
Roosevelt
Ohio
Robert Bulkley
Bulkley
George White
Northwest Territory
Davey
White
Roosevelt tours frontier regions urging support for liberal lawmakers
President Roosevelt visits Marietta Ohio and continues to Covington Kentucky on a Crags-country tour. He stresses cooperative government and new security statutes for banks mortgages and foreclosures while rallying support for liberal senators and representatives.
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Washington
Marietta
Covington
Kentucky
Barkley
Roosevelt
Northwest Territory
Holl
Northwest
Bulkley
Peculiar Circumstances Surround Young Beauty Student Death
Centralia, Illinois reports a 20 year old beauty school student Mary Britton found dead from a bullet wound in a Loomelty home. Police cite peculiar circumstances including two fired cartridges and a bloodstained room. Elvin Satterlee, who rented the house, had her in Centra lia since July 4 and sent her to beauty school in East St. Louis. Indications suggest suicide but mystery remains.
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Ill
Cashinneblo
Mary Britton
Elvin Satterlee
William Kaelin
Satterlee
East St. Louis
Kaeiin
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