Southern senators press for exemptions in minimum wage bill
Washington June 10 Southern Senators claim victory in their drive to allow lower minimum wages for the South amid a pending 41 cent an hour standard. They expect a House committee to approve broad exemptions, with boards in each industry to set regional rates, and a seven-year phase in. Debate rages over scale while a key public works bill advances and an anti trust inquiry panel is approved.
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Washington
Dixie
Norla
Senate House
Senate
Pepper
Ellender
Conference
Hey
Inter
Walsh
D-Mass
Roosevelt
House
Leiher
Release Declares Slayer Not To Be Tried In Child Slaying
BIRMINGHAM Ala June 10 1 H EL Colburn 31 year old father who fatally hurt a Black person in a courthouse incident will not be tried for the slaying Colburn was released from county jail where he had been held since the victim John Lewis Smith 21 formerly a servant at the Colburn home was killed May 13 after a grand jury returned a no bill Smith was struck four times as officers led him from the courtroom to jail Colburn surrendered his public safety item and gave himself up immediately
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Birmingham
Als
EL Colburn
Colburn
Jefferson County
John Lewis Smith
Smith
Czechs Prepare for Orderly Vote on Sunday
Czechoslovakia braces for a final election weekend with 3170 communities voting as 1880 German dominated towns prepare for ballots. Government reserves kept on alert after past incidents with Sudeten Germans amid renewed German propaganda. Negotiations with the Sudeten German party ease tensions temporarily.
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Praha
Czechslovakia
Czechoslovakia
Konrad Henlein
Retchenberg
Teplitz
Trautenau
Leitmeritz
Germany
Weather forecast for several states with showers expected
A fragmented weather note indicates showers across Tennessee Virginia and Kentucky with rain likelihood overnight into Saturday. Tennessee may see lingering showers and cooler air, Virginia expects rain Saturday morning, with stronger showers possible later. Kentucky shows occasional showers tonight and Saturday with localized warmth and unsettled conditions in the north and east regions.
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Virginia
Kentucky
Fort Worth Tex philanthropist pledges $800000 fortune
Philanthropist Frank Neal Crane pledges an $800,000 fortune to support a Wavarro County community foundation aimed at religion education alleviating suffering building public facilities aiding the poor and advancing science. Crane rejects the notion he is Santa Claus, stressing self-help and community involvement.
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Corsicana
Tex
Frank Neal Crane
Santa Claus
Wavarro County
Bul
Dravic
Portrayer Of Forlorn Wife Seeks Divorce From Odets
Dark eyed Viennese actress Miss Rainer asks divorce from playwright Clifford Odets author of Golden Boy. She cites cruelty and incompatible careers, says frequent quarrels and absence from home while hospitalized. Odets reportedly did not converse with her. She states marriage failed for both parties and ends with a statement from her attorney.
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Los
Les
June
Insted
Ogiets
Odets
Death claims eight airmen in army bomber crash near Delavan
Miss Laura Youle reported a large airship crashed on her mother's farm near Delavan during a storm. At least eight bodies were found near the wreckage and debris indicated a violent impact. The craft, possibly missing from Chanute Field and bound for Denver, had been out of communication for hours.
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Army Air Corps
Youle
Here
Laura Youle
Chanute Geld
Rantoul
Mil
Denver
Colo
Air Corps
Miss Youle
Carey Youle
State to erect new institutions for welfare patients
Nashville June 10 A 3 2760000 building program for state institutions housing mental patients was recommended to the Tennessee welfare department. New hospitals and colonies were proposed at Knoxville Memphis Nashville Bolivar Chattanooga and Lawrenceburg with 13 projects total. The plan includes a Knoxville hospital replacing the present plant on valuable land likely yielding funds for new properties and patient care facilities.
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Nashville
Tennessee Welfare Department
Knoxville
Memphis
Bolivar
Chatta Nooga
Lawrencebure
George H. Cate Wyse
Frank Joutan
Vanderbilt University
Paul Boynton
George Peabody College For
Cate
Austrian student property seized in Vienna crackdown
The state police announced the confiscation of Austrian Catholic student society assets valued at about 1.2 million dollars after the forced dissolution of more than 30 student organizations. A government spokesman said the students must now fight only for Hitler as church and pagan groups gain from Austria's new status amid the March 13 annexation.
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Hitler
Lae
Austria
Germany
Witness in Spy Case Ties Hairdresser to Johanna Hofmann
Eleanor Boehne a Hunter College student testifying before the special federal grand jury in New York said she knew Johanna Hofmann a hairdresser on a German liner who was recently arrested. The witness described Hofmann in connection with the espionage investigation and the case details remain under inquiry.
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Special Federal Grand Jury
New Yor
Eleanor Boehne
Hunter Caller
Johanna Hofmann
Central Freee
Berry to Launch Campaign Tour June 18 in Tennessee
Senator George L. Berry announced plans to start an active speaking tour on June 18 as he seeks renomination. The move follows Governor Browning’s expected Memphis speech amid Crump and McKellar coalition pressure. Berry’s campaign team says he will tour daily except Sundays until the election, to map an itinerary after a Washington visit. The Browning campaign has not set a Memphis date for his address, though campaign chief James H. Cummings notes Shelby County's political climate remains pivotal.
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George L. Berry
Browning
Memphis
H. Crump
Walter M
Peter) Haynes
Washington
National
Berry
Democretic State Executive Committee
Haynes
Coalition
Cramp
ED. McKellar
James H. Cummings
Shelby
Ford Granted Appeal to Supreme Court
The U S Circuit Court of Appeals allowed Ford Motor Co to appeal to the Supreme Court a National Labor Relations Board order of December 22 enforcing the Wagner act. The court refused the board's request to withdraw records pending the appeal and overruled Ford motions including one to interrogate labor board members and New Deal advisers. Petitions for oral arguments were denied.
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U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Ford Motor Co
Supreme Court
National Labor Relations Board
Ford
Labor Board
New Deal
J. Warren Madden
Benjamin Cohen
Thomas Cargoran
Roosevelt
Insurgent air raids hit Alicante Gandia and Denia
Madrid June 10 insurgent air raiders again bombed Alicante Denia and the British port of Gandia. The Thorpehall freighter was struck and began sinking stern first while the Brisbane coastal vessel burned and sank. A two masted Spanish regia plane dropped six bombs amid the attacks that began last night.
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Savoia
Alicante
Denia
Gandia
Trekehter
Brisbane
Edwin Apfel
Regi
Remive
Sunky
Publisher's Wife Granted Divorce
Waukegan June 10. Mrs Alice Higginbotham Patterson wife of Joseph Mundill Patterson publisher of the New York Daily News won an uncontested divorce from Patterson on grounds of desertion after a brief hearing before Circuit Judge Ralph Dacy. She testified to a Chicago marriage in 1903 and separation in 1928. An out of court property settlement was being arranged. Patterson was not present and was represented by Waymouth Kirkland.
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Alice Higginbotham Patterson
Joseph Mundill Patterson
New York Daily News
Ralph Dacy
Dacy
Pattersat
Patterson
Chicago
Waymouth Kirkland
Six applicants named for TVA chief engineer post
Washington AP reports the congressional committee narrowing the field to six applicants for the job of chief engineer at the Tennessee Valley Authority. In Chattanooga Luther Hill, 35, a University of Chattanooga graduate, completed a fast with orange juice he attributed to divine provision. Farther, Canton was bombarded during two weeks of Japanese air raids near Canton in South China. President Roosevelt dismissed reports about Thomas Corcoran’s political activities as attempts to raise a bogey man.
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Post Washington
Congressional
Tennessee Valley Authority
Roosevelt
Thomas Corcoren
Federal Witness Slain and Kidnapped in Harlan
In London Kentucky on June 10 AP reports a witness slain and a miner kidnapped amid the Harlan labor trial. Lester Smithers, 36, was shot at Guiston while two brothers Vern and Clyde Fee were held, with the shooting linked to a union argument. John Isom, a union organizer, was allegedly abducted from a Cumberland restaurant and forced into a car, with Titler providing descriptions to FBI agents.
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Harlan County
C. N. Nolan
Lester Smithers
Guiston
Vern Fee
Clyde Fee
Harlan
Nolan
Verlin Fee
Smithers
Yancey
United Mine Workers of America
George Titler
Federal Bureau of Investigation
John Isom
Cumberland
Titler
Isam
Titer
Army continues probe in slaying at Fort Benning
Major John R. Brooke 44, instructor at the infantry school, remained under guard as military and FBI agents investigated the death of his 42-year-old wife Elizabeth Brooke. Brig. Gen. Asa Singleton said she was killed by blows to the head. Daughters Barbara 12 and Carolyn 7 found the body at the foot of a stairway. The investigation involved U S Attorney T Hoyt Davis and FBI agents from Atlanta. Brooke’s father, Col William Brooke, a Texas native, was en route from San Antonio.
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Fort Benning
John R. Brooke
Army Infantry School
Elizabeth
Bruce Magruder
Barbara
Carolyn
Asa L. Singleton
United States
T. Hoyt Davis
Gray Rawls
Macon
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Atlanta
Army Post
Major Brooke
Col
William Brooke
San Antonio
Texas
Politics in relief may bring inquiry
Washington June 10. Democratic senators push for a two senator inquiry into alleged politics in relief. They cite Senator McAdoo's California amendment to study state use of federal social security and highway funds as acceptable to the president's lieutenants. Barkley declined comment on the proposal.
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Washington
McAdoo
California
Barkley
Kentucky
White House
Senate
Barnley
A. B. Chandler
WPA
George H. Goodman
Aubrey Williams
Goodman
Special Grand Jury to Study Case Monday
Franklin Pierce McCall, 21, confessed to abducting five year old James Bailey Cash Jr from his bed on May 28, killing him accidentally, and demanding a $10,000 ransom. FBI Director J Edgar Hoover said the case is solved with a full confession. State will present evidence to a special grand jury Monday for possible murder and kidnapping indictments.
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Princeton
James Bailey Cash
D. Edgar Hoover
Ganen
McCall
Rabson
Miami
Fila
James Bailey Cash, Jr
J. Edgar Hoover
Federal Bureau of Investigation
R. A. Cash
Vicim
Unkcle
Hoover
George A. Worley
Husky
Worley
Lawrence A. Truett
Mefallhi
Peferat Bureau of Investigation
Attorney General's Office Under Fire In Greene County
Greeneville June 10 The Greene county grand jury charged money was used to fix cases out of court and magis trates failed to report collected fines The court ordered a thorough investigation and appointed an attorney general pro tem to work with the grand jury on alleged irregularities in the attorney general's office
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Greeneville
Walter R. Gray
Greene County Grand Jury
Cire
Shelburne Ferguson
Grand Jury
Berguson
Curt
Jeuse
Attourney
Suthway
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