Tate Refuses To Place Boyd Shelby Ballot
Shelby county election officials reject a petition by City Judge Marion S Boyd to place his name on the August 4 ballot for district attorney general. Tate cites counsel advice and notes Browning Crump factional lines as the drive for a mandamus or contempt potential. Earlier, Tate accused registrars of interference during a three day supplemental registration. In Kentucky a child dies from shock after a storm detains the Spencer family.
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Smphis
T. Galen Tate
Shelby County Election Commission
Tod
Marion S. Boyd
Boyd
B.A. Crump
Toe
Tate
County Election Commission
Gordon Browning
Crump
Ditter
Browning
Late Crime Commission
Shelby
Memphis
Seadlund to Die at Midnight for Kidnap Slayings
Chicago report details the execution of John Harry Seadlund after his conviction for kidnapping Ross Seadlund and James Atwood Wr, with the suspect claiming involvement in the killings at a cave hideout near Stevens Point Wisconsin. Financial motive cited with ransom of about $3000.
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Seadlund
Weather summary for Tennessee and Virginia
Tennessee reports fair conditions tonight with scattered showers in western areas and east portions, cooler by Thursday with cooler temperatures expected. Virginia forecasts fair skies with some showers in the extreme north tonight and Thursday, then rain in south and central areas Thursday, cooler again Thursday night into Friday.
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Tennessee
Virginia
Dime Store Heiress Drops Charges In London Divorce Case
Barbara Hutton, heiress to the Woolworth fortune, dropped a criminal charge against her Danish husband Count Court Haughits-Reventlow in Bow Street. A separation or divorce was hinted as the next step, with Danish law potentially governing future proceedings. The couple's son Lance and disputes over settlement terms were noted, and a mysterious London suitor figure was referenced but not named.
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Rader Winget
London
Barbara Hutton
Count Court Haughits- Reventlow
Bow Street
Woolworth
Gut
Countess Barbara
Jat-tick Hastings
Barbara
Man's Story On Mattson Kidnaping Believed False
TACOMA, July 13 AP Chief William Cole of the Washington highway patrol said a man who confessed to the Mattson kidnapping is a mental case and not involved. The man named Clarence White and other aliases would not be charged and would likely have a sanity hearing. Olson, the boy’s alleged kidnapper, had named others, but later statements collapsed. The case remains under investigation with FBI input and ongoing questions about the suspect.
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Tacoma
Wash
Wiliam Cole
Washington Highway Patrol
Mattson
Cole
Clarence White
Clarence Throp
Clarence Mead
Franis Disn
Charles Mattson
Cols
Olson
Riteville
Washington
Melvin Oestreich
Star
Murial
Wiliam Mattson
R. C. Suran
Seattle
Federal Bureau of Investigation Office
Sid
Oklahoma Senate Race Leads as Thomas Extends Edge
In Oklahoma July 1349 Senator Elmer Thomas widened his lead over two primary opponents in the Democratic gubernatorial contest. President Roosevelt praised Thomas as a longtime ally while Alf Murray trailed, and W H Murray’s anti-New Dealer stance surfaced with a Landon reference. Early county returns show Thomas atop Smith and Marland, with Phillips leading the gubernatorial field.
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Oklahoma City
Elmer Thomas
Oklahoma
Roosevelt
W. H
Bill" Murray
Giation
Thomas
BH. W. Marland
Wow Deal
Rep
Gomer Smith
Senate
Smith
Marland
Leon C. Phillips
Murray
W. 5. Key
WPA
Alf M. Landon
Phillins
Key
Jack Walton
Ira Finley
The
Veterans of Industry of America
Sraith
T. Bone McDonald
Renard
Mob Hangs NLRB Examiner in Effigy Over Hearing
A jeering mob in Steubenville Ohio watched as Clyde Armstrong, attorney for Weirton Steel, was hanged in effigy from a hotel window after a hearing shift to Pittsburgh. About 200 steel workers crossed the Ohio River to protest the 1 month limit hearing and expulsion of the examiner.
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NLRB
Edward M. Strode
Gaid
Clyde Armstrong
E. Grandison Smith
Smith
Federal Building
Armstrong
Quizz Committee Tours Georgia Power Projects
TVA investigation team visits Georgia on the second leg of a five day tour of the agency s projects. They will inspect Chickamauga dam and compare it with the Hiwassee dam already visited after crossing from North Carolina. The co operative sells wholesale electricity to rural customers in multiple counties.
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Chattanooga
TVA
Georgia
North Georgia Electric Membership Corporation
Catoisa
Walker
Whitfield
Murray
Dade
Chattooga
Gordon
Power Corporation
North Carolina
Hiwassee Dam
Indirect Note Warns Nazi Forces Amid Global Conflicts
As civil wars rage in Spain and China battles Japan, Britain rushes troops to the Holy Land while France vows not to abandon Czechoslovakia. Daladier declares France will defend its word but seeks an arms drive, and a British armored squadron enters Palestine. Skirmishes erupt near Haifa as a Nazareth body dies from stabbings. In Spain, Francisco Franco commands a 209,000 strong force toward Valencia as Barcelona air raids continue. Kiukiang remains hot as Chinese and Japanese forces clash along the Yangtze, Canton endure bombardment by multiple sorties.
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Barcelona
Canton
Britain
Holy Land
France
Germany
Czechoslovakia
Edouard Daladier
Prance
Nazareth
Kiukiang
Yangtze River
Huankow
China
South China Metropolis
Southern rail rate parity urged at ICC hearing
Southern industrial interests pressed for parity rail rates at an Interstate Commerce Commission hearing in Buffalo New York. Shippers asked the commission to base southern rates on mileage equal to the northern official district to expand southern markets for northern and eastern products. Benjamin Russell president of the Alabama state chamber of commerce testified that given a chance the south will have money to buy northern products, many of which are not competitive.
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Buffalo
Interstate Commerce Commission
Chamber of Commerce
Southern
Benjamin Russell
Alabama State Chamber of Commerce
Transfusions Awaited Save Life in Tennessee Campaign News
Transfusions are awaited as Bristol physicians strive to save a pregnant mother and unborn child at King's Mountain Memorial hospital. Blood tests and a planned transfusion are coordinated with donors in Sullivan County while politicians Campaign for governor, senator, and utilities commissioner address voters in Blountville and nearby cities.
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Cooper
Caverta
Bristol
Mort Loudy
Blountville
King’s Mountain Memorial Hospital
Loudy
Miler Fleenor
Indian Springs
Sullivan County
Kingsport
Prentice Cowper
Tom Stewart
W. D. Hudson
U. S
Browning
Court House
Johnson City
Tennessee
Gov
Jace Huey ‘Ang
Louisiana
Looper
Commission Starts Probe Into Insurances and Corporations
Washington July 13 The securities commission began a study into insurance companies investment banking and the structure and functions of business corporations as part of the government monopoly inquiry. Knoxville July 13 The body of Marion Lee Porterfield 16 was identified after a drowning in the Tennessee River and his mother Mrs Andy Porterfield testified to his death. Nashville July 13 Executive directors of the Tennessee Education Association deplored recent criticisms of the American Legion by Professor William Gellermenn of Northwestern University.
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Knoxville
Andy Porterfield
Todey
Tennessee River
Marion Lee
TEA
Legion
Nashville
Tennesx¢e Education Association
American Legion
William Gellermenn
Northwestern University
Bathelt Pleads Guilty in Cement Coffin Slaying
John F. Bathelt, 26, of New York, pleaded guilty to second degree murder in the Charles Morris case known as the cement coffin slaying. Judge Thomas Hammond sentenced him to life imprisonment in a 10 minute session after arraignment on a .45 caliber pistol murder charge. Morris, a New York race track follower, was found three weeks earlier bound with wire and cement fragments in the Connecticut River. Bathelt, once a companion of the dead man, volunteered to return to aid investigators and was arrested after questioning by State Detective Maurice Nelligan and South Hadley Police Chief John J. Sullivan. His actress-wife, married only two weeks, was mentioned in passing.
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Northampton
Mass
John F. Barhett
New York
Charles Morris
Thomas Hammond
Bathelt
Morris
Connecticut River
Maurice Nelligan
John J. Sullivan
South Hadley
Nelliga
PLAN NO MORE RUSSIAN STOPS ON FIFTH JUMP
Howard Hughes and four companions began the fifth leg of their world flight from Yakutsk Soviet Russia heading toward Fairbanks Alaska. The plan kept two-thirds of the journey completed with a 2,456 mile route across Siberia and the Bering Sea awaiting them.
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Yakutsk
Siberia
Howard Hughes
Fairbanks
Alaska
Omsk
Hughes
Bering Sea
Anadyrsi
New York
Witey Post
Khabarovsk
Kharher
Ovsk
Anadyrsk
Bering Strait
Terrtory
World's Fair Grounds
E.S.T
Wiley Post
Post
Wugies
Yakusk
New Yorks
Liveria
Norris Foresees Conflict Between Fascism Democracy
AP dispatch reports Senator George W Norris on his 77th birthday forecast a clash between democracy and fascism. He mused about a possible allied world war to wipe out fascism but opposed voting for a foreign war now. He warned future Americans may wish they had defeated fascism early.
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Dewitt MacKenzie
New York
United States
George W. Norris
Nebraska
America
France
Great Britain
Russia
Norris
England
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Stanton
Minn
Seedlund
Wrodsman
Los Angeles
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Ross
James Atwood
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Spnorer
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Man
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Jett
William C. Bullité
Hohes
Moscow
Nevada
FDR
Flan McCarran
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Benjamin C. Hilliard
Colorado Supreme Court
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Richard Kirman
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