Franco Forces Close on Bilbao in Basque City Siege
Amid smoke and fires Bilbao endures a siege as insurgent troops push from the east toward the Nervion river and mount a western encirclement to seal the Basque capital. Generals press to complete Bilbao’s isolation with government units in retreat and snipers active in the streets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bilbao
Spain
Newring
Santander
Caudillo
Generatissimo
Francisco Franco
Bilbio
Nervion
al Chemical Factory
Weather Forecast Confused Local Showers Across States
Partly cloudy with probable local showers tonight in Tennessee and Virginia and Kentucky. Forecast notes slight or no temperature changes, with showers possible in eastern and southern Virginia and in southern Kentucky.
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Tennessee
Virginia
Kentucky
PAPA DOUMERGUE DIES SUDDENLY IN FRANCE
Former French statesman Gaston Doumergue dies suddenly at 73 in Aigues-Vives after a long career as premier and president. Known as Pana by friends he led France through the 1920s and early 1930s and spent retirement among vineyards in southern France.
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Gaston Doumergue
Aigues-Vives
France
Nese
Ws4
Atltaels
Fran
Gaston Duimereuc
Pirance
Paris
Pana
Doumergue
Dolamergue
Madame Jeanne Grave
Hirses Palace
If the Elephant Leaned A Bit More in Seattle
In Seattle, June 184? an incident between Wideawake the elephant and Boyd Southern ended with Southern hospitalized for chest and shoulder injuries after the animal leaned toward him toward a brick wall. The event arose from a collision between the ape elephant and the bystander near Wideawake.
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Seattle
Boyd Southern
Wideawake
Southern
Insurgents Seize Las Arenas as Snipers Hold Out
In Las Arenas near the Bilbao estuary insurgents occupy the city after heavy street fighting. Basque defenders retreat toward Bilbao as government troops move in, while snipers fire from privileged districts. A hospital scene shows a weary doctor tending sleeping infants amid war's upheaval.
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Edward J. Neillas Ardnas
Carlos Mendoza Tomas
Las Arenas
Names of tax evaders laid before solons
Washington April 18 The treasurer s intelligence chief testified before a congressional committee naming prominent capitalists who formed foreign corporations to dodge taxes. He cited Colonel Jacob Schick and others as using Bahamas firms to hide income and shift assets, detailing transfers and potential tax avoidance schemes.
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Washington
Congressional
Elmier Lrey
Internal Revenue Bureau
Philby Devone
New York
Jules
Bache
Trey
Jacob Schick
Canada
Percy K Hudson
New York Stock Exchange
Drey
Schick
Wallace Groves
Groves
Fenest
Ivry
Bahamas
Irey
Colonel Schick
Union organizers driven from Tupelo by crowd
In Tupelo on June 18 a crowd of workers entered a hotel and dragged two women organizers from bed into a car and drove them out of the city. Ida Sledge, organizer for the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, had been in town aiming to organize Reed Brothers Inc. workers. a petition from factory employees opposing CIO contact was handed to her by the mayor, who documented it. The organizers refused to leave. the crowd, about 180 people, expelled the two women.
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Tupelo
Miss
Committee For’ Industrial Organization
Ida Sledge
International Ladies Garment Union
Reed Brothers, Inc
J. P. Nanney
CIO
Unio
Miss Sledge
Peron
Violation Wagner Act Laid to Mills in Charlotte
Henry I Adams of High Point district manager for the Virginia Carolina area of the Federation of Hosiery Workers said charges were filed with the National Labor Relations Board against Nobel Knitting Mills in Charlotte alleging violation of the Wagner Act. Adams said Nobel Mills employing about 340 workers interfered with organizing and sought to intimidate workers seeking union membership.
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Charlotte
N.C
Henry I. Adams
High Point
Virginia-Carolinas
Federation of Hosiery Workers
National Labor Relations Board
Nobel
Knitting Mills
Ace Adams
Committee For Industrial Organization
Nebel Mills
Adams
Arrests Ordered in Oil Fraud Case Shreveport
Fifty one people across five states were ordered arrested in a vast shipment oil fraud and conspiracy case filed by U S District Attorney Harvey G Fields. The scheme involved shipping tank cars labeled refined oil and distillates to evade gasoline taxes, with forged bills of lading and improper explosive markings. Defendants from Louisiana Mississippi Alabama Florida and Tennessee include oil station owners managers and staff. Tax evasion estimated around 1 000 000 and the matter will go to a grand jury in a special session.
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Shrevefort
Harvey G. Fields
Shreveport
Fields
United States
Louisiana
Mississippi
Alabama
Florida
Tennessee
Explosion May Have Wrecked Vessel Near Seal New York
A mystery blast at sea on June 61 may connect to the disappearance of the Havana boat Maloa in the South Atlantic. Capt BEG Stoft of the freighter Yoro reported spotting a triple explosion off the Florida straits, a sinking blazing hull, and a burning derelict after racing 30 miles to the scene. The Maloa, a nine-masted motorship, left Tampa for the Bahamas three days earlier. no lifeboats or signs of life were found.
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New York
Havana
South Atlantic
BE. G. Stoft
Freiehter Yoro
Tampa
Fla
Bahamas
Hashad
Florida Straits
Stole
Hoboken
New Jersey
Cout
Stolt
Gre
Rowland to Face Game Law Charge in Tennessee
CROSSVILLE Tenn June 18 Ernest C Rowland Cumberland Homesteads CCC Camp Superintendent was scheduled to go on trial today. He is accused in a warrant of being responsible for catching two turkeys among a large number freed to replenish the county's wild game supply.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Crossville
Tenn
Gheatchea
Ernest C. Rowland
Cumberland Homesteads
CCC
Rowland
Capitol Building Too Small Warns State Engineer
Lincoln Nebraska June 18 State Engineer A C Tilley complains the 14 story capitol building is too small and part of the tabulation division had to be moved into a restroom due to lack of space. In Beverly Hills California June 18 J P Al Boasberg 45 died of a heart attack a script writer for Jack Benny.
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Lincoln
Neb
A. C. Tilley
Nebraska
Capitol
Tilley
Beverly Hills
Calif
al Boasberg
Jack Benny
Boasberg
Soviet aviators launch nonstop Moscow to San Francisco flight
Major J. E. Genet in Edmonton reported Soviet aviators have begun a nonstop flight from Moscow to San Francisco. In Paris, Basque delegates accuse Britain of withdrawing protection for merchant ships evacuating Bilbao civilians.
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Pacific
Edmonton
Alta
J. E. Genet
Royal Canadian Corps of Signals
Moscow
San Francisco
Paris
Great Britain
Bilbao
Laughton Evades Taxes by Transferring Earnings
Treasury investigator Elmer Ivey told congress that actor Charles Laughton made substantial tax reductions by funneling his Hollywood earnings through a British corporation. The remarks were made during a Washington hearing on June 18.
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Washington
Elmer L. Ivey
Treasury
Congressional
Charles Laughton
Hollywood
Yates Reaches Semi Final in Southern Amateur
Charlie Yates of Atlanta advanced to the semi final at Charlotte North Carolina on June 18 by edging Scudday Horner of Montgomery Alabama one up on the eighteenth hole in the southern amateur golf championship.
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Charlotte
N. C
Charlie Yates
Atelanta
Scudday Horner
Montgomery
Ala
Helen Tiernan Admits Brutal Slaying of Child
Helen Tiernan pleads guilty to second degree murder in the death of her seven year old daughter. In Suffolk County Jail she faces 20 years to life with possible parole after about 13 years and four months for good behavior. Sentencing set for Monday as the rapid close of the trial continues.
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Helen Tiernan
Sears
Riverhead
Suffolk County
Depres
Tiernan
Rapid Close
Continues
Puryear's Fourth Trial Begins in Memphis
The state launches its fourth bid to convict Stanley Puryear in the previous axe slaying of his wife and daughter five years ago. After four days of questioning a jury was seated and testimony started. Puryear, 43, denies the crime and blames a slain suspect. If acquitted he would face new charges in the death of his 8 year old daughter Aurelia. Enrollment in urban and rural elementary schools nationwide is falling.
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Memphis
Stanley Puryeat
Puryear
W. T. McClain
Aurelia
Will Jamieson
Sunshine Walker
Miss Walker
State Supreme Court
Davis Denies Role in Wife's Death at Woodbury Trial
John W. Davis, 63, a farmer, testified in circuit court that he did not participate in or know of any action to prevent his wife Jodie Davis from having more children. The 34-year-old died May 25 from blood poisoning linked to an illegal operation. Davis said he cared for his wife during illness and wanted her to live, not die.
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Woodbury
Tenn
John W. Davis
James Cummings
Jodie Davis
John
Davis
Cummings
Steel strike in Midwest draws union leaders to investigate lines
Canton scene as two hundred union members march to break Republic Steel picket lines after gathering at downtown headquarters. In Washington, Philip Murray urges Senate investigators to summon four steel company heads, Chicago officials, and subpoenas for corporate records to reveal spies, gunmen, and spending on guns as talks with the mediation board begin.
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Canton
Ohio
APT
Law and User” League
Republic Steel Corp
League
Reublic
Washington
Philip Blurray
Steed Workers Organizing Committee
Senate
Chicago
Sen~ate Post Office Committee
Corporation
Murray
Tom Gischer
Republic Steel Corporation
Suministration
New Steel Medaation Board
Pledge Coopers
Icen
Cooperathor
Tom Girdler
Tom ‘Girdler
Bailey
Ali
Girl admits earlier marriage to aid husband in Navy case
Baltimore reports Beulah Kathleen Woolard Nash Anderson declares in a signed statement witnessed by two, that she married at 15 to a Georgia Tech senior in 1934 to help Charles A. Nash Jr. regain Navy ensign status. She says another marriage to Oren Anderson occurred near Annapolis to confirm her claims, while planning divorce from Nash.
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Baltimore
Beulah Kathleen Woolard
Navy
Georgia Tech
Glenville
Oren Anderson
Tech
Charles A
Chuck" Nash, Jr
Chuck
Naval
South Milles
N.C
Naval Academy
Annapolis
Academy
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Trucias
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Tourne
Tralian
Black Arrow” Brigade
Leni Rieffenstahl
Leni Riemenstaal
Adolf Hitler
Paul Joseph Goebbels
Miss Rieffenstahl
Rieffenstahl
Reich Film Chamber
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Yates
America
Labor, Relations Board
Éardanf & Per
Labor Board
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D.-Tenn
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