Japanese War Stoppage Signals Tension in Asia
Washington reports LaFollette committee findings on Chicago police actions during a May 30 steel strike protest near Republic Steel. Ten demonstrators were killed and many injured as police used force. photos and testimony described shocking indifference to wounded. The report questions why no aid was rendered and notes police employ of gas and weapons. Meanwhile Tokyo claims orders halt large North China war supply deliveries, signaling possible peace moves amid Sino Japanese tensions as North China dispute looms.
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Washington
LaFollettee Civil Liberties Committee
Chicago
Senate
LaFollette
States of the Republic
Polies
Paramount
James L. Moonen
Tokyo
War Office
China
North
Domei
Nanking
Shinrokuro Hidaka
Takaji Wachi
North China
Japan
Asahi
Weather Outlook For Tennessee Kentucky Virginia North Carolina
Generally fair conditions through tonight and Friday with slightly warmer temperatures. Tennessee and Kentucky will see fair skies and modest warming, Virginia remains fair with warmth rising Friday, North Carolina reports fair and cooler tonight then fair and somewhat warmer interior Friday.
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Tennessee
Nage
Kentucky
Virginia
North Carolina
Nation Mobilizes 100 Million for China Fight
On the eve of a special parliamentary session Japan mobilizes the entire nation of 100,000,000 for a fight against China. Thousands of reinforcements have rushed to China and more may be dispatched. A temporary truce in North China is seen as insufficient to resolve the major disputes between Tokyo and Nanking, with Chinese forces and Japanese units poised for further action.
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China
Tokyo
Japan
Asia
Yesiterday
Peiping
Nanking
Nan
Weems Trial Follows Scottsboro Pattern as Death Penalty Waived
In Alabama Charlie Weems faced trial for participating in a mass assault by nine Negroes on two white women. The state waived the death penalty, similar to the earlier Wright case, and Samuel S. Leihowila led the defense as jurors were selected. Clarence Norris was told of a death sentence after Wright’s conviction, but the date was stayed pending appeal.
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Leroy Simms
Drcatur
Ala
Scottsboro
Charlie Weems
Alabama
Andy Wright
Wright
Idth
Samuel S. Leihowila
Weems
Ith
Scotts
W. WW. Callahan
Clarence Norris
Deep Sea Diver Ventures to Solve Newport Monster Mystery
Memphis diver Charles B Brown set sail with aides and hundreds of locals to probe Bateman eddy in Newport seeking the elusive monster said to surface briefly then vanish. He will spend four days with a 60 foot depth, hoping for evidence of an overgrown catfish or other sea mystery as witnesses describe snorts from the depths.
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Charles B. Brown
Memphis
Newport
White River
Brown
Bateman's Eddy
Newport Chamber of Commerce
Bramlett Bateman
U. S.S. Navy
U. S. Engineers
Arkansas
Britain Might Transfer Palestine Mandate to United States
London July 21 Geoffrey Mander liberal member of parliament proposed that Britain hand over its mandate over Palestine to the United States. He will ask Prime Minister Chamberlain if the government will consider proposing to the League of Nations that it be offered to the United States. The House backed a delay to study the plan and refer it to the League of Nations. The compromise moves to keep the partition plan under review while awaiting fuller inquiry.
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London
Geoffrey Mander
Great Britain
United States
Palestine
Mander
Neville Chamberlain
League of Nations
House of Commons
League
William G. A. Ormsbygore
Prnestine
Royal Commission
Britain
Four Lane Highway Plans Attract Attention In Arkansas City
Arkansas officials announce a proposed four lane highway into Kingsport from Johnson City and Bristol to ease HL Highland Park traffic. The plan includes a two lane concrete through route, right of way acquisitions, and a safety circle at a major intersection to slow traffic.
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Tennessees
Kingsport
Johnson City
Bristol
State Highway Department
Nashville
Highland Park
Highland
Sullivan County
Dickson and Roller Properties
Eastman Road
Johnson City Highway
Zeppelin Hindenburg blaze blamed on spark theory
Washington reports the air bureau credits an electrostatic spark with igniting the Hindenburg disaster on May 6 at Lakehurst New Jersey. Wet ground ropes and humid hydrogen air are cited as the channel. Dr Hugo Eckener calls theory logical while Rosendahl remains unconvinced sabotage was ruled out. Ninety seven witnesses testified. investigators weighed bullets rays and bombs but found no evidence.
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Washington
Bureau of Air Commerce
Lakehurst
N. J
Friedrichshafen
Germany
Hugo Hekener
Charles E. Rosendahl
Naval Air Station
Rosendahl
Bristolian Faces Murder Charges
Newport July 22 Sheriff GR W Smith of Cocke County said Eddie Williams of Bristol is held on murder charges in the death of Steve Powell of Bristol at a roadhouse five miles east of Newport. Powell was shot by an unidentified man during a poker game as he helped distribute money. The assailant ordered a room search for about $600 and then fired. The suspect was arrested in Bristol around 7 pm yesterday and brought back to Newport.
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Newport
GR. W. Smith
Cocke County
Eddie Williams
Bristol
Steve Powell
Williams
Smith
Powell
Ralph Thomas
Here
Thomas
Raymond Blardony
Madrid
Gonierssissime
Francisco Franco
Villanuéva de la Canada
Villanueva de la Canada
Frances Mor
Franco
Brunete
Jose Miaja
Miaja
Francisca
Forma
Senate Overrides Roosevelt Veto On Farm Loan Rates
The Senate enacted over President Roosevelt's veto a measure to extend emergency interest rates on farm loans. Japanese and Chinese reports today indicated local officials would recognize settlement of the North China crisis, a central point of contention.
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Associated Press
Japan
North China
Senate
Washington
Roosevelt
Rockefeller grandson receives NYSE membership transfer
The New York stock exchange membership of the late John D. Rockefeller is posted for transfer to Laurence S. Rockefeller, his grandson, on July 22. The move reflects the Rockefeller family's continued influence in finance and marks the official change of ownership in the exchange seat.
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Rockefeller
New York
New York Stock Exchange
John D. Rockefeller
Laurence S. Rockefeller
Tennessee youth extortion case linked to abduction in 1937
Frank W. Clark, 22, a Jackson Mississippi typewriter company employee, was held in Laredo Texas on charges under the federal extortion statute related to a July 15 1937 kidnapping in Jackson Mississippi and a subsequent ransom demand from Nuevo Laredo Mexico. The Knox County FBI chief reported the case began with Clark's 32 000 ransom note and involved his Maryville Tennessee connections and a transfer from Knoxville.
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Knoxville. Tenn
L. B. Hood
Knoxville
Federal Buureach
Frank Hw. Clark
Jackson
Miss
Laredo
Texas
Clark
Maryville
Tenn
Hood
Frankie Clark
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Nuevo Laredo
Mexico
Frank W. Clark
Maryville, Tenn
Marysville
Seattle News Guild Quits Paying Dues
Forty editorial employees of the Seattle Post Intelligencer, all members of the American Newspaper Guild, refuse to pay dues and assessments over policy disputes. They sent a petition to the guild’s international board and president Heywood Broun, opposing a referendum and accusing the Seattle chapter of blocking members’ voices. The petition notes the July 15 Guild Reporter listing the Seattle chapter as opposing a referendum on the St. Louis convention action. The Seattle chapter contends it never voted on a referendum. An adjourned hand picked meeting rushed through a motion opposing a referendum.
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Seattle
Seattle Post Intelligencer
American Newspaper Guild
Ito
Guild
Broun
Heywood Broun
Guild Reporter
Guild News Organ
Seatle
St. Louis
American Federation of Labor
Committee For Industrial Organizaton
Highest Court Ruling Stays as Senate Returns Reform Bill
The Senate voted to send Roosevelt’s Supreme Court enlargement plan back to the judiciary committee. A new lower court focused measure would be reported within 10 days, excluding changes to the Supreme Court, and direct appeals in constitutional cases would be considered.
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Washington
Senate
Roosevelt
Judiciary Committee
Supreme Court
Logan
D.-Ky
Garner
Democratic Party
Genera
Suffey
D-Pa
Minton
D- Tnd
Administration
Wheeler
D-Mont
Barkley
Bilbo and Harrison Clash Over Judge Holmes in 1906
Senate history recalls a Mississippi judge Edwin Holmes jailed Theodore Bilbo for contempt years before Bilbo became senator. Bilbo vowed to oppose Holmes and watched from the sidelines as Harrison pushed Holmes’s nomination, a clash echoing into later political contests.
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Eddy Gilmore
Washington
IFI
Senate
Mississippi
Edwin RK. Holmes
Theodore G. Bilbo
Bilbo
Deep South
Pat Harrison
Job
Harrison
Holmes
Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals
Harrigan
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Ropaibie
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Britisher
Solon
Sen. Robinson
Little Rock
Ark
State Democratic Committee
Joe T. Robinson
State Committee
Spark
Air Commerce Report
Hindenberg
Bristolian
Sino Crisis
Mrs. Pearl Antibus
Mrs
Jean McDonald
Los Angeles
Thomas Warmer, Sr
Pasadena
Cal
Pearl Antibus
Antibus
Warner
Thomas, Jr
Warner, Sr
Central Press
Newspaper Guild
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