Two Offensive Armies Make Rapid Strides
World War II items report Japanese forces advancing toward Hankow through Anhwei with Anking captured, while insurgents push into Castellon de la Plana as European tensions rise. Sudeten Germans vote yes in Nazi-dominated elections, Britain weighs cabinet changes and responses to Spanish air attacks. Canton raids shock U S observers as Tokyo asserts property protections and protest notes are exchanged with American, British, and French authorities.
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Hankow
Anking
Anhwei
Yangtze River
Castellon de la Plana
Europe
Czechoslovakia
Adolf Hitler
Chamberlain
London Times
Yellow River
Vhengchow
Yangtae
Nanking
Hongkong
Japan
Star of American- da Lingnat University
Canton
Addison S. Saul
Qwerrd
U. S
Shameen Island
Weather Update Shows Cooler Tennessee and Virginia
Cooler readings forecast across Tennessee tonight with fair to partly cloudy skies. Northeasterly winds shift cooler in the west with possible showers late tonight. Virginia expected slightly cooler southeast to south central, Tuesday fair with rising temperatures in western areas and lingering showers elsewhere.
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Tennessee
Warner
West
Niet
Nicht
Virginia
Buln
Worth
Accidents Claim 106000 Lives In Year 1987
The National Safety Council reports 106000 deaths from accidents in 1987, double the WW II casualty toll for Americans. Injuries affected 1 9 million, with at least one family member harmed in every fourth home. Economic costs reach 3.5 billion, enough to build 75 Empire State Buildings. Motor vehicle crashes caused 49500 deaths and 1.36 million injuries, with 1.7 billion in costs, a 4 percent rise from 1936.
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Chicago
National Safety Council
Empire State
Miners Fight Fire Started by Blast in Alabama Mine
In Piper Alabama on June 13 a blast started a coal mine fire that burned four days. A crew of 35 worked to seal subterranean flames using concrete in heat swept corridors as carbon monoxide caused one miner to collapse. Miner Birler Wierce, 27, survived after being rescued, condition not serious. State Mining Bureau officials and company executives oversaw fire fighting with sealing planned. Continued on page eight.
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Piper Ala
Iit
Birler Wierce
State! Mining Bureau
William Millhouse
T. B. Thoninsou
Roosevelt And Assistants Study Temper Of Congress
Washington June 13 Roosevelt and his congressional leaders wrapped up an experiment on cooperation to survey the legislative program and the temper of the Senate and House. Nearly every Monday since the 1948 session began the group has met in an upstairs White House study as sessions replaced the former back-channel talks. Attending are Vice President Garner Democratic Leader Barkley of the Senate Speaker Bankhead and Democratic Leader Rayburn of the House. The group is understood to have had the final word, but legislative advice often prevails. Rayburn said discussions have been very frank and candid, with weekly talks shaping government priorities.
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Joan M. Aightow
Washington
Roosevelt
Senate
House
Garner
Barkley
Bankhead
Ray Thurn
Rayburn
Barkeley
Loe Day
Kentucky
Congress
Barkey
Reconstruction Corporation
Banking Committee
White House
Texas
United
Thomas D-Utaht
Senate Labor Committee
Thomas
Voters urged to re register before August in Memphis
Memphis June 13 Mayor Watkins Overton warned opponents of Gov Gordon Browning that every qualified voter in Memphis and Shelby County would be registered during a three day supplementary period before the August 4 Democratic primary. The move follows a probe into nearly 100000 existing registrations deemed void by state board member Rue Waldauer and political critics who question the validity of the rolls. Overton accused Browning of desperation over taxes and broken promises and vowed to mobilize in every ward to ensure broad voter registration before the supplement period.
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Memphis
I Watkins Overton
Gordon Browning
Shelby County
Rce Waldauer
anti-Browning
State Board of Elections
Browning
Waldauer
Bose
Supreme Court
Prentice Cooper
Shelbyville
Overton
Seven Fatalities Listed for State in Week
Nashville dispatch reports seven Tennesseans killed in a week by traffic crashes, drownings, and fire. Nearby victims include Milford West of Paint Rock Creek and Misa Beuna Strunk of near Oneida in a Sunday night collision. Other deaths involve William E. Fitzgerald and a 14-year-old, a Tennessee River drowning near Knoxville, a Knoxville Smoky Mountains drowning, Mrs. Katie Braham, and Adrian House perished in a city fire at Memphis quarters.
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Nashville
Tennessee
Milford
Paint Rock Creek
Misa Beuna
Oneida
Memphis
Wiliam E. Fitzgerald
Dalton Bratchi
Luther Jackson
Lewis Seeks Bill to Penalize Gov Contractor Firms
John L. Lewis and the CIO press for congressional approval of a bill penalizing government contractors who ignore labor board rulings or fail wage hour standards. After House Judiciary rejected the measure, Lewis met with Speaker Bankhead and Rep. Rayburn amid noncommittal replies. Additional talks involved Rep. Dies and Chairman Summers as pressman lingered nearby.
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John L. Lewis
G.ilo
Labor Board
House Judiciary Committee
Lewis
Bankhead
Rayburn
Texas
Watrals
Probe into WPA activities closed in Kentucky
The federal inquiry into charges of political activity by the Works Progress Administration in Kentucky was closed. Havvard Hunter, assistant WPA administrator from Washington, said the charges were unfounded after investigating Brady Stewart’s claim linked to Governor Chandler’s Democratic primary challenge to Senator Alben W. Berkley. He defended officials’ right to personal opinions.
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Louisville
WPA
Kentucky
Havvard
Hunter
Works Progress
Washington
Brady Stewart
Chandler
Alben W. Berkley
Stewart
New Ray Used for Cancer Patients
Howard W Blakesler reports from San Francisco on a June 13 briefing to the American Medical Association describing billion-volt X-ray devices using gold and lead electrodes. A domed MIT generator powers a six foot long vacuum tube in the Huntington Memorial Hospital setup, delivering intense X-rays for cancer treatment.
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Howard W. Blakesler
Missing Airliner Is Found Wrecked On Mountain Top
A U S 13 AP report says a Fresno prospector followed a hunch to the wreckage of a storm-crashed TWA airliner missing since March 1. The 9 aboard included co pilot H M Salisbury and pilot John Graves. Bodies lie near Buena Vista Peak 9,000 feet high. Salvage crews planned to move in by horseback as details emerged.
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Yosemite
Calif
TWA
Buena Vista Peak
Yosemite Valley Ranger
Sierra Nevada
Fresno
H. O. Collier
Forést Townsley
Collier
H. M. Salisbury
Kansas City
Lef Wawona
Dnstance
California
John Graves
Sierra
Albuquerque
N. M
Burbank
San Francisco
J. Tracy Dirlam
Mansfeld
Okw
Stanford University
Mary Low Dirlam
Victor Krause
Lincoln
J. B. Wells
L. B. Waits
Harvey M. Salisbury
Capitol CW
Wallace
Treson
Ariz
Martha M. Wilson
Philadelphia
Effect on Trade Enters into Case in Harlan Labor Trial
London June 13 Government attorneys prepared to prove that the 20 coal companies and 4 percent individuals on trial in the Harlan labor case affect interstate commerce. Proving an interstate commerce effect is essential to the Wagner act conspiracy charge alleging a deprival of miners’ right to organize. Evidence aimed at this point was to continue in federal district court.
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London
Ixy
Harlan
Jin Federal District Ecowrt Mear Ile
Last Minute News Flashes Paralyzed Victim Inox Lung Chicago
News brief items report a paralyzed victim in Chicago, Fred B. Snite Jr. 27, recovering from infantile paralysis at his suburban home after a Saturday hospital transfer. Separate items note TVA inquiry focus on power cost measurement, a Detroit report on industry lagging labor in public appeals, and Pennsylvania Supreme Court setting June 37 for grand jury petition responses on primary campaign charges against Governor Earle and state Democratic leaders.
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Chicago
Fred B. Snite, Jr
Snites
River Forest
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Supreme Court
George H. Earle
Democratic Party
Sullivan taxes filed show Tennessee totals rise in 1937
Washington report by Commissioner Guy T. Helvering notes 47 308 federal income tax returns filed in Tennessee for 1937, up from 42 703 the previous year, with state totals broken by counties and cities including Nashville 9 857 and Memphis 32 414.
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Washington
Tennessee
Guy T. Helvering
Internal Revenue
Carley County
Elizabethton
Davidson
Nashville
Tamiltan
Chattanooga
Lookout Mountain
Knox
Knoxville
Madison
Jackson
Montgomery
Clarksville
Rutherford
Murfreesboro
Guild president outlines mission at Toronto convention
Toronto June 23 The American Newspaper Guild president Heywood Broun said the union seeks peace and unity in the labor movement while preserving industrial unionism. He praised efforts to prevent discharges and raise wages as delegates opened the fifth annual convention amid a split over leadership and AFL CIO ties.
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Toronto
Heywood Broun
Guild
New York
American Federation of Labor
C Ttee
Brown
Don Stevens
Chicago
Jon
Gillette Welcomed by FDR in 1944 White House Meeting
President Roosevelt hosted Senator Gillette at the White House for a five course luncheon amid a hot town primary win over Rep Wearin. The talks signaled White House desire for party harmony and backed Gillette against former Senator Dickinson, highlighting a fight between progressivism and conservatism.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Gillette
Iowa
White House
Gilette
Rep
Wearin
Congress Edges Toward Adjournment Amid Wage Bill Debate
Washington June 13 reports say Senate Leader Barkley after a Roosevelt conference announced Congress would adjourn Wednesday, with no new railroad legislation to be enacted this session. The administration aimed to push wage hour reform. debate centered on a nationwide minimum wage plan and regional wage differentials, with details awaiting House action.
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Elender
D-La
South
Walsh
D.-Mass
Mit
Senate
House
Treatment For Needy Gets Study Medical Convention
San Francisco June 14 4 The American medical leaders opened the convention with talk of a socialized system for treating indigent patients They conceded free care demands have grown beyond the profession to hear alone The discussion noted collective thinking toward possible federal funding and Dr Irving Abel said 180000 physicians donate about 1 million dollars worth of daily services to the needy and low income patients
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Rennie Taylor
San Francisco
American Medical Assoriation
J. J. Upham
Columbus
Ohio
Irving Abel
Louisville
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Bernard Delehanty
Levine
New Rochelle
N.Y
Delehanty
Peter Levine
Assistants
Shelby
OKEH
Bill
CIO
Ilegal Contractors
O'Connor
Representative Dies
D.-Tex
Lee Pressman
Summners
Pressman
Tonikennedy
Penn
Clyde
Eer
Biddle
Tennessee Valley
TVA
Detroit
Edward F. Mctrady
Advertising Federation of America
Sullivan
Kingsport
Collierville
Bristol
Johnsen
Broun
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