Police Break Up CIO AFL Clashes in Flint Plants
In Flint Michigan on June 13 police dispersed violent clashes between CIO and AFL factions of the United Automobile Workers Union at General Motors plants. Homer Martin’s AFL planned talks with Governor Lor en D Dickinson in Lansing over the strike as police guarded entrances and escorted workers inside. About 15 CIO members were besieged at their headquarters. one injured man was taken to a physician.
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Generaltors
Homer Martin
Martin
Loren D. Dickinson
Lansing
Fisher No. 1
South Saginaw Street
Atherton Avenue
Fisher
Weather Briefs for Kentucky Tennessee and Virginia
Kentucky and Tennessee forecast showers tonight and Wednesday with little temperature change. Virginia expected showers and thunderstorms tonight and Wednesday with little temperature change. North Carolina mostly cloudy with showers Wednesday and interior tonight.
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Kentucky
Tennessee
Virginia
North Carolina
Rioting injures workers near Allis-Chalmers plant
Rioting near the Allis-Chalmers manufacturing Co plant in West Allis, Wisconsin, injures at least 13 persons including eight police and deputies. Five pickets are hospitalized. tear gas and eggs are hurled as streetcars are attacked.
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Milwaukee
West Allis
Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co
Wisconsin
Taylor to Decide on Morgan's Suit
Federal Judge George Taylor said he would soon issue an opinion on Dr. A. E. Morgan's suit challenging President Roosevelt's removal of him from the Tennessee Valley Authority chairmanship. Morgan, ousted in March 1938 for contumacy, argues the removal lacked a concurrent House and Senate vote and was illegal.
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Knoxville
George Taylor
A. E. Morgan
Roosevelt
Tennessee Valley Authority
TVA
Morgan
House
Senate
Chancery Court
District Federal Court
Torture Cells In Trial Of Vaslav Architect Cik
In Barcelona on June 13 a court heard the trial of Alfonso Lat Cik a 38 year old vaslav architect accused of building cells for Republican authorities. The prosecutor sought the death penalty by garrote claiming torture and madness in the decorated chambers. Witnesses testified Cik constructed the cells and caused suffering among Nationalists, while he denied building them.
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Barcelona
Vaslav
Alfonso Laut Cik
Cik
Francisco Franco
Landon predicts FDR will decline third term bid
Alf Landon, former Kansas governor and 1936 Republican nominee, told a Massachusetts club that President Roosevelt will refuse a 1940 bid. He criticized New Deal spending and warned that a third term could bring disaster, while praising citizens who oppose it and urging responsible statesmanship.
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Boston
Alf M. Landon
Roosevelt
Business and Professional Women’s Republican Club of
Massachusetts
Kansas
Landon
Republic
United States
Attitude Of Fair Officials Questioned By Justice Cotillo
Justice Salvatore A. Cotillo criticized Grover A. Whalen head of the New York World's Fair Corporation for not appeasing foreign exhibitors upset by labor union demands. He warned that high pressure salesmanship is not understood in old countries and urged action to prevent exhibitors from withdrawing in 1940 over alleged sabotage and enforced union labor at high wages.
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World of Tomorrow
Supreme Court
Salvatore A. Cotillo
Grover A. Whalen
New York World's Fair Corporation
Justice Cotillo
Cotillo
Generalissimo
Whalen
Stolen Watteau Painting L Indifferent Eyed by Paris Louvre Theft
Police watch coastal and border points as investigators pursue smuggling routes for Watteau painting L Indifferent stolen from the Louvre on Sunday. Homer St Gaudens suggests the work could have been sold before the theft to fit a market among collectors, per Carnegie Institute director.
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L’indifferent
United States
Louvre
New York
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Louvre Museum
Homer St. Gaudens
Department of Fine Arts
Carnegie Institute
Pittsburgh
St. Gaudens
S. S. Aquitania
Europe
Londoner Held In Shooting Near Home of Royal Family
Londoner Ledwedge Vincent Lawlor a middle aged Australian welder on Waterloo Bridge was ordered held for trial at Old Bailey on charges of firing shots near the Duchess of Kent and into the home of the princes royal. Prosecutors said he rode a bicycle with a sawed off rifle near royal residences and fired twice. His lawyer said Lawlor intended no harm and had no designs on any royal. He pleaded not guilty but gave no defense details. Police said motive remained a mystery.
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London
Ledwedge Vincent Lawlor
Old Bailey
Duchess of Kent
Lawlor
Princess Royal
George
Earl of Harwood
Belgrave Square
Leslie Marks
H. A. K. Morgan
Waterloo Bridge
Kansas Prison Mutiny Ends Without Violence
LANSING Kas June 13 The mutiny of 229 convicts in a Kansas state penitentiary coal mine over silk underwear and food ended without violence at 1110 this morning as convicts signaled surrender.
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Lansing
Kas
Kansas State Penitentiary
Tax Committee Pressed to Finish Business Tax Plan
Washington talks on June 13 describe a House subcommittee moving swiftly to complete a draft reform of business taxes after repeal of the undistributed profits levy. Chairman Cooper aims to have the bill ready for debate next week, with Morgenthau outlining major provisions and Roosevelt seeking to preserve revenue.
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Washington
House
Cooper
D-Tenn
Treasury
Roosevelt
Morgenthau
Rome Reports Italy Pressing Spain for Military Alliance
Rome reports Italy is pressing Spain for a military alliance as the two nations seek stronger postwar security ties. Diplomatic discussions focus on mutual defense commitments and regional stability amid rising tensions.
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Rome
Italy
Spain
Youths Accused of Torturing Jewish Student in Baltimore
In Baltimore on Friday, about 40 boys allegedly attacked a Jewish youth after he was accused of carrying a carved H on his neck and Swastikas inked on arms. School authorities suspended 18 students as city councilman Sean Abramson probed police reporting lapses.
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Baltimore
Sean Abramson
Melvin Bridges
Man who preached own funeral dies at 90 in Indianapolis
Wade Millman a 90 year old farmer who preached his own funeral sermon dated two years ago died today in Indianapolis after weeks in hospital. The report notes his oak casket and unusual faith.
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Indianapolis
Wade Millman
Royalty Tours East Canadian Sector on Maritime Visit
King George and Queen Elizabeth made a 10 minute stop at Newcastle New Brunswick amid a 27 day Atlantic tour. They travelled by car through central New Brunswick to Fredericton after greeting crowds at the 3,500 population town.
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N. B
King George
Queen Elizabeth
Maritime Provinces
New Brunswick
Fredericton
Halifax
Matapedia
Jim Thomas
Vimy Ridge
Green Arouses Call for Full Turnover of NLRB
President William Green of the AFL urged the House Labor Committee to displace the current NLRB membership to restore confidence among American workers. He backed AFL sponsored Wagner Act amendments and a proposal to abolish the board for a new one. He accused the board of CIO favoritism and urged fair administration aligned with original intent.
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Washington
William Green
AFL
House Labor Committee
Labor Relations Board
CIO
Green
Britain weighs response to Far East crisis with Japan
June 13 report says Britain shifts focus from European issues to potential Japanese blockade of British and French concessions in Tientsin. Cabinet foreign affairs committee discusses actions if blockade occurs. officials vow to avert it and call such a move illegal. China reports Japan threatening blockade over four Chinese accused of terrorism.
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Far East
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Tientsin
Britain
China
Tales of Horror Not So Horrible Says School Head
In Trenton New Jersey State Education Commissioner Charles H Elliott reinstated Olive F Jordan a long time first grade teacher in Wenonah ruling the hearing testimony failed to prove charges that her classroom tales about China and Japan a child killed in an auto crash and a high school student who killed his mother shocked pupils.
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N. J
Charles H. Elliott
Elliott
Olive F. Jordan
Wenonah
China
Japan
Britain weighs reaction to move toward three power talks
Britain watches Moscow and Berlin for responses to renewed push to bring Soviet Union into a tri‑power pact with France and Britain. Foreign Secretary Halifa x restates forceful stance while envoy Strang heads to Moscow to speed talks. Pravda signals insistence on Baltic guarantees, and Voelkischer Beobachter notes Nazi demand for German colonies before peace.
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Berlin
Europe
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House of Lords
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Soviet Union
France
William Strang
Strang
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Estonia
Latvia
Finland
Adolf Hitler
Voelkischer Beobachter
Rome
Italy
Spain
Boundary on TVA Area Welcomed by House Panel
The House military affairs committee pushed to limit TVA geographic reach in buying power distribution facilities. Officials say defining TVA's future scope could unlock up to 300 million dollars in refinancing by Southern subsidiaries of Commonwealth & Southern Corp. Utility leaders see this as easing fears of further federal power expansion and spurring private utility expansion. Wall Street activity signals a resumption of large-scale utility refinancing.
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New York
House
Military Affairs Committee
Tennessee Valley Authority
Southern
Commonwealth & Southern Corp
TVA
Wall Street
Lewis decries Congress inaction on unemployment crisis
John L. Lewis told the CIO executive board that Congress has produced a worse than nothing record on unemployment. He warned of economic paraly sis and rising despair, urged bold leadership, and pledged to organize 20 million unorganized workers as part of a new CIO campaign. He also accused AFL and big business of conspiring against the Wagner Act.
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U. S
Washington
John L. Lewis
CIO Executive Board
Congress
CIO
Lewis
AFL
American Federation of Labor
Lews
United States
Daylight Saver Confusion In Seattle Morning
A Seattle woman phoned the Post Intelligencer in a panic thinking morning darkness was night. The reporter explained it was daytime and nine o clock in the morning, not nine at night, revealing a daylight saving mix up.
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Seattle
Seattle Post Intelligencer
Fiddler Keen Bradley Found Dead Likely Beaten
Police probe in Tompkinsville Kentucky into the death of Keen Bradley a 60 year old fiddler from Celina Tennessee after an inquest suggested he was beaten and his body dumped on the Celina Moss highway yesterday authorities said today.
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Tompkinsville
Keen Bradley
Celina
Tenn
B. I. Grace
Celina-Moss
Will Roosevelt Attend Buckingham Palace Visit Opener
After King George and Queen Elizabeth toured the United States, Washington ponders whether President Roosevelt and the First Lady will be guests at Buckingham Palace this fall. Many believe an informal invitation was extended, though no official word confirms it. The royal telegram expressed gratitude for hospitality and friendship.
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Queen Elizabeth
Roosevelt
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Buckingham Palace
Ereign
Hyde Park
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