Tennessee Supreme Court Asked To Rule On Shelby County Election Board Case
Tennessee’s Supreme Court was told the state board of elections seeks to set aside a circuit court order blocking the Shelby County Memphis election commission from taking office. The board claims ouster actions were lawful and not reviewable, while old commissioners McKee Thompson and Mathews contest. The case centers on a politically charged power shift between Browning and Crump allies.
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Nashville
State Board of Elections
Supreme Court
Shelby County
Memphis
Browning
K E. H. Crump
State Board
Crump
Shelby
Richard P. Dews
Charles Cornelius
W. M. Fuque
W. Lytle McKee
Joe Thompson
Ross A. Mathews
T. Galen Tate
Sam Johnson
David Hanover
Tennessee
New Crime Commission
Frank Gailor
Thomas Malone
Baal
Malone
Gaylor
E. H. Crump
Weather forecast for Tennessee and Kentucky
Fair and warmer tonight. Tuesday mostly cloudy with possible showers Tuesday night. Virgin Islands, Kentucky and Tennessee forecasts emphasize warmer conditions with fair skies tonight and on Tuesday.
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Tennessee
Kentucky
Glass Fights Priming Policy While Expecting Approval
Senator Glass of Virginia denounces the priming program as Treasury misuse while signaling broad support for the 4.5 billion spending plan. He spoke before a House appropriations subcommittee as final witnesses from labor and civic groups urged higher work relief spending. Discussion covered earmarking funds keyed to unemployment census data and the potential for new relief distribution rules.
New Agency Shatters Dope Smuggling In America
San Francisco May 7 A World wide drive against narcotics has seized contraband on the Pacific slope valued up to 1 000 000 and more than trebled the price. Eight major waterfront raids and a near miss smuggling 81 tins of sprum worth 46 090 led to narcotics recovered including 917 tins 182 pounds opium 32 pounds morphine and 54 pounds heroin Opium now commands 280 wholesale as it becomes rarer and scarcer.
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San Francisco
Pacific Slope
Chaumont
Labor Leader Defends Federal Relief Spending Plan
William Green of the AFL told a house appropriations subcommittee that a federal spending lending program is necessary due to unemployment rising from 7.5 million to 11.2 million since last September. He endorsed the President’s relief and public works measures and noted an agreement with WPA chief Hopkins on paying prevailing wages to avoid grant withholds. Senator Glass opposed the plan, warning against treating the Treasury as a pawn shop. Green indicated approval of the $4.5 billion program is likely. Other witnesses included John L. Lewis and Mayor La Guardia.
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Washington
Glass
D-Va
Roosevelt
Treasury
Senate Appropriations Committee
House
John L. Lewis
CIO
William Green
American Federation of Labor
la Guardia
New York
David Lasser
Workers Alliance
Lewis
Woodrum
Byrd
House Appropriations
Green
Congress
Glass D-Vai
Capitol
Beco
Federation
WPA
Harry L. Hopkins
Hedr
Evicted Speaker Plans Return to Public Meeting
Norman Thomas, Socialist party leader, vows to defy officials and return to Hague’s Jersey City stronghold for another public gathering. Police expelled him Saturday night during an unauthorized May Day speech as rallies are banned. he seeks FBI and Roosevelt replies on alleged kidnapping.
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New York
Norman Thomas
Jersey City
Frank Hague
Socialist Party
Cold Spring Harbor
N. Y
Thomas
Roosevelt
J. Edgar Hoover
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Hoover
Hague
Democratic National Committee
Nationa
Your
Daniel Casey
Pasadena
Calif
Upton Sinclair
Brs
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Wasron
Atrack
Sinclair
Scalp Bidder Sells Bogus Poll Tax Receipts in Sullivan Primary
A Sullivan County primary case reports a person posing as a deputy trustee selling fake poll tax receipts to a candidate worker. The scam involved a $2.00 pair plus a 10 cent delinquency penalty. The receipts were later found bogus and the worker now pursues the alleged culprit.
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New York
Sullivan County
Lingar Called In Election Probe Hearing
Deputy Sheriff C F Lingar was to testify this afternoon as petitions of contest against T L Holt and T N Orr proceed. The hearing, adjourned Saturday to 1 pm, is not expected to end before tomorrow, with four of more than 20 witnesses already under oath. Deadline Chairman Brown set next Saturday as the decision day on whether the Democratic primary should be held again amid irregularities in many polling precincts and about 2000 bogus poll tax receipts.
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C. F. Lingar
T. L. Holt
T. N. Orr
Paul Gray
Malcolm Morison
Bosrc
Brown
Marriage Unites German Nobility at Potsdam Castle
Prince Louis Ferdinand of Hohenzollern and Grand Duchess Kirn of Romanoff wed in a civil ceremony at Cecilienhof Castle Potsdam. Crown Prince Wilhelm and Grand Duke Cyril witnessed as Hussar and formal dress marked the event before a Greek Orthodox service. The bride wore an heirloom silver brocade gown. the groom in air force lieutenant uniform. (Continued on page eight).
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Potsdam
Germany
Louis Ferdinand
House of Hohenzollern
Kirn
House of Romanoff
Cecilienhof
City Hall
Wilhelm
Prussis
Cyril
Old Russia
Duchess of
Coburg
Alexander II
Paul Adamontoss
Wiesbaden
Berlin
Europe
Hitler
Deutschland Weber Alles
Hermann Wilhelm Goering
Goering
FDR Hopes for Wage Bill Passage Despite Rules Hurdle
President Roosevelt expressed hope the House could vote on wage hour legislation at a session despite the rules committee’s denial of priority. Chairwoman Norton said she would draft two petitions to add 218 members for automatic floor consideration, though adjournment pressures and committee resistance cloud prospects.
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Washington
Roosevelt
House
Rules Committee
Norton
D.-N.j
House Labor Committee
Bfr
Charleston
D. C
Policf
Democrats Appeal to People in Four States in Nomination Push
Twenty six Democratic members of Congress urged party members in Indiana Alabama South Dakota and Florida for renomination in Tuesday's primaries. Some lawmakers backed or opposed the Roosevelt program while risks included running as independents or losing chances for another term. A parallel set of Republican primaries affected two House seats Case of South Dakota and Halleck of Indiana.
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Washington
Congress
Roosevelt
Indiana
Alabama
South Dakota
Florida
Case
Halleck
Page
Court Affirms Death for Negroes in Arkansas Rape Case
The Supreme Court affirmed death sentences for Theo Thomas and Fran Carter, two Black defendants convicted of raping a 11 year old Memphis white girl near West Memphis, Arkansas last Christmas night. The ruling comes as the state prepares to carry out the punishments. Meanwhile Ford Motor Company asks a federal court to determine if the National Labor Relations Board improperly consulted outsiders, including noted lawyers, before issuing a board order.
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Little Rock
Supreme Court
Theo Thomas
Fran Carter
Crittenflew County
Memphis
West Memphis
Labor Board
Covington, Ky
Ford Motor Company
Circuit Court of Appeals
National Labor Relations Board
Thomas Corcoran
Benjamin V. Cohen
John L
Homer Martin
Officers Probe Death Of Local Man In Auto Crash
County officers investigated the death of Claude Wills Jr a 21 year old from Lynn Garden who died at Community Hospital from internal injuries after an auto wreck Friday night south of Fall Branch Wills was thrown from an open Chevrolet when it sideswiped a power pole The car driven by Jim McGrady of Kingsport took Wills to Kingsport then Highland Park where he was briefly jailed before dying at the hospital the following day.
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Claude Wills
C. G. Wills
Lynn Garden
Community Hospital
D. €. Pierce
Fall Branch
Claude
Jonesboro
Willis
Jim McGrady
Sise
Kingsport
Wills
Highland Park
L. D. McConnell
McConnell
Supreme Court to decide if strikers retain Wagner Act protection
Washington May 2 The Supreme Court may decide whether workers who voluntarily strike remain protected by the Wagner Act. The National Labor Relations Board sought to enforce an order against Macksy Radio and Telegraph Co to reinstate five San Francisco workers who struck in 1935. The circuit court refused, ruling they were not employees after striking. The board contends the issue involves core policy and may lead to broader procedural changes following a recent high court decision. Charles Fahy warns several labor cases might be reopened and requests delayed action in federal court.
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Washington
Supreme Court
National Labor Relations Board
Macksy Radio and Telegraph Company
Rainstate
San Francisco
Circuit Court
Wallace
Charles Fahy
Philadelphia
World Reacts as Dictators Meet in Rome Parade
The world watches the Hitler Mussolini Rome rendezvous amid Sudeten German demands for a Czech vote. Berlin cheers as Hitler departs for Italy with Mussolini. Henlein calls for Sudeten autonomy, raising tensions for European diplomacy and the Axis.
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Associated Press
Rome
Europe
Czechslovakia
Berlin
Mussolini
Hitler
Jmot
Reichschancellor
Italy
Germany
Austria
Breoner Pass
France
Britain
Czechoslovakia
Rigat
Spain
China
Shantung Province
Shanghai
Seccession Feared In Church Merger Sparks Rift
In Birmingham on May 2, rumblings of a secessionist branch surfaced as the Methodist Episcopal Church South faced a judicial council verdict on its unification vote. The conference also moved to elect seven bishops, while anti unification leaders at Stone Mountain Ga threatened to form a new congregation if the merger proceeds.
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Birmingham
South
Methodist Episcopal Church, South
Judicial Council
Commission On Episcopacy
Stone Mountain
Puter
council—Methodism
Supreme Court
James C. Davis
Stone Mountain Superior Court
Georgia
Methodist Episcopal Church
Davis
Stone Mountain Church
Episcopacy Commission
College of Bishops
State Accidents Take Six Victims in Tennessee
Tennessee saw six fatalities from weekend accidents with two deaths from train-related incidents and another from a 200-foot plunge near Chattanooga. Rol and Velia Michaels died in the Chattanooga crash, Claude Wills Jr. perished from a Kingsport bridge impact, Will Stringer died in a Covington head-on crash, and Mrs. David Bullock of Memphis was among the late-night fatalities with three others injured.
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Nashville
Roland Hall
Velia Michaels
Chattanooga
Claude Wills, Jr
Kingswort
Will Stringer
Covington
David Bullock
Memphis
Clannish Traders to Bury Dead in Private Cemetery
Clannish traders and descendants of old land horse heritage plan private burial for six clansmen who died over the last year at a Nashville cemetery. The service honors the four represented clans the Rileys Carrolls Costellos and McAnnallys as a 91 year old Costello leads the camp near Nashville with roots tracing to Ireland and the Boswell line.
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Nashville
Old Reland
United States
Rileys
Carrolls
Costellos
McAnnallys
Thomas Simon Costello
Ellen Boswell
Boswell
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FDR
Democrats
Fiorello la Guirilla
Charlotte
N.C
American Federation of Hosiery Workers
Southern Branch
Paul
State of Tennessee
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