Somoza hosts Roosevelt on Nicaragua visit
Somoza and President Roosevelt, guests of the city and state, discuss plans for a Nicaraguan Canal project, U.S. aid, and American investment during a three point visit focused on defense, development, and regional ties. Somoza highlights Monroe Doctrine support and Pan American highway expansion.
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United States
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Nicaragua
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Tennessee and Virginia Weather Forecast Fragments
Fragmented forecast notes indicate fair conditions tonight through Tuesday with a cooler north portion. Mentions of light frost and gradually cooler temperatures across Virginia and Tennessee regional areas.
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Tennessee
Virginia
Roosevelt Proclaims Fair Token of Peace and Friendship
New York's World’s Fair, a $160 million, three year build, opened with President Roosevelt declaring a spirit of peace and friendship. The inaugural programs included the Temple of Religion dedication, a 25,000-strong parade, Washington inauguration reenactment, and a night of monumental illumination.
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Constitution
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Grover Whalen
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Fiorello LaGuardia
Herbert Lehman
George Washington
Denys Wortman
Washington
Roper Named for Canadian Post in Roosevelt Policy
Washington May 1. Roosevelt sent to the Senate today the name of Daniel Roper former secretary of commerce for the post of minister to Canada He had been out of office since last December and would enter a new field of diplomatic service.
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Roosevelt
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Canada
Seek Compromise In Coal Contract
The deadlocked Appalachian coal talks resume amid reports of compromise proposals from operators. The UMW demands include a closed shop or elimination of strike penalties, keeping about 39,000 miners idle in eight states since April 1. About 190,000 more in outlying states may walk out if an agreement is not reached. UMW mediator John R. Stettin plans to submit a separate compromise proposal to the conference. A one week extension of the old three year anthracite contract expires, with 9,000 hard coal miners affected pending settlement.
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Ground Is Broken At Clarksville For New Goodrich Plant
Ground breaking held in Clarksville for a new 1 500 dollar Goodrich plant. City will provide water and sewage facilities after 000 issue funding. Officials say the factory will hire several dozen workers and operate 24 hours with three 8 hour shifts. Local labor will be given first preference.
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U S Representative Proposes Forest Land Tax Changes
In a congressional record statement Representative Colmer argues for federal payment to counties based on purchase price of lands acquired for reforestation and farm tenancy acts. He notes 16.7 million acres bought across 31 states and Puerto Rico for reforestation at costs totaling millions, including Tennessee's 529 thousand acres for about 93 million dollars.
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Puerto Rico
Tennessee
Colmer
Green attacks NLRB as distorted Wagner Act
President William Green of the AFL charges the National Labor Relations Board with distorting the Wagner Act to favor rivals of the AFL. He urges replacing the three-member body with a five-member Federal Labor Board and supports AFL amendments expanding court appeals and limiting board power.
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Kansas City Boss Pendergast Pleads Innocent in Tax Case
Kansas City political boss Pendergast and ally R E O'Mally plead innocent to federal income tax evasion charges for 1935 and 1936. The case, before Judge Merrill Otis, names $443 550 and $62 500 in alleged unreported income and sets a June 12 trial.
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May
Tom J. Pendergast
Merrill E. Otis
R. E. O'Mally
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Teir
Otis
Charles V. Carollo
Albert Peeves
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Carollo
Angelo
Donnici
James Abbott
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Akita Quake Forces Mass Flight as Cities Face Sea-Edge Threat
Akita Japan May 1 sixty thousand terror struck residents fled inland during a powerful quake described as the worst in 25 years. No casualties reported yet but parts of Oka Peninsula and nearby coastlines are said to have sunk beneath the sea. The epicenter is believed in the Japan Sea with Funakoshi burning.
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Japan
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Akita Prefecture
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UJ Strengthens Panama Defense
The War Department creates a Caribbean defense unit under Brig. Gen. Edmund L. Daley to defend Puerto Rico and Virgin Islands and direct Gulf defenses. Roosevelt aims to deter foreign bases near the Americas as U S forces prepare for a peacetime budget near 1.804 billion dollars.
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Bolber Ends Manhunt in Poison Ring Case
Morris Holber known as Louie the Rabbi surrendered to Philadelphia detectives on a murder warrant after a four day manhunt linked him to a vast Eastern Seaboard insurance murder poison ring. Police say Bolber may have been a principal in the scheme that led victims to death and insurance payouts across Pennsylvania New York New Jersey and Delaware over ten years.
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Morris Holber
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Death by own action found in secretary’s car
Kansas City May 1 A death by own action note was found in the automobile of Edward L. S. Chneider secretary treasurer of seven corporations led by Boss T. J. Pendergast. The car was parked on the Fairfax bridge over the Missouri River.
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Milam warns jail break repeats in Sullivan county
Sheriff Roby Al Milam warns that the Sullivan county jail break may repeat at any time until a new jail is built or the present one is remodeled. Fifteen prisoners escaped around 2 a.m. by sawing bars and bricks, tying blankets to descend from the second floor. nine were later captured, six still at large.
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Sullivan County
T. R. Bandy
Pete Ramsey
Ramsey
City Holds Fourth Straight Month Without Traffic Fatalities
Kingsport police intensified traffic enforcement as the city completed a fourth consecutive month without a traffic fatality. Chief Crawford ordered strict ordinance enforcement and assigned two officers to motorcycle duty. April traffic in the city and county saw record low accidents with 17 reported and eight injuries. one violent death occurred near Gate City.
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Roosevelt Thomas
New Post Office Dedicated by FDR in Rhinebeck
In Rhinebeck New York President Roosevelt with two cabinet officers and Crown Prince Frederick of Denmark dedicated a new Dutchess county post office. The building mirrors the 1700 home and is praised for early Dutch Colonial style over Victorian taste. Morgenthau presented the structure. Farley will run it.
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Nazis Seek Polish Isolation To Gain Coup Advantage
The Associated Press reports that guns and allies shaped Europe’s May Day keynote as Germany and Poland clash over the free city of Danzig and the Polish corridor, signaling strategic moves in a looming political struggle.
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U. S
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Congress Keeps Heavy Postwar Agenda On Deck
Congress nears its fifth month with most work left, focusing on national defense and government reorganization. Administration aides expect session to run into summer as Roosevelt prioritizes refining New Deal laws and resisting major changes to the Wagner Act while international tensions mount.
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Confession Ties Negro and White Youth to Murder Motive Revealed
Gate City May 1 A town sergeant said a confession tied Sambo Forsie to stabbing Roosevelt Thomas 29 and implicated white youth James Cole as the rock strike partner. Investigators traced a robbery motive with a torn cardboard note directing money to Fergie and Cole.
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Clifford F. Davidson
Roosevelt Thomas
Davidson
Sambo ‘Forsie
Thomas
James Cole
Fergie
Cole
J. E. Quillin
Forgie
English Conscription Promises Social Upheaval in England
English conscription will reshape class lines and the nation says DeWitt MacKenzie in a foreign affairs dispatch. The piece highlights Tommy Atkins as a symbol of the soldier’s life and the broad social changes expected from mandatory military service.
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