Violence Flares in Harlan County Mines Amid Picket Strikes
Tensions rise as miners report for a picketed Clover Fork mine in Harlan County Kentucky. Patrols surge with 25 additional troopers ordered and a deputy beaten during a parade. Warnings from Gov Chandler and Industrial Relations Commissioner Burrow accompany efforts to reopen mines despite stalled UMW contracts.
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United Mine Workers
W. E. Hansen
Lexington
A. B. Chandler
Frankfort
Connie Slaton
Whitley County
Tennessee
Henry Young
Marshall Musick
Jellico
Tenn
Musick
Chandler
W. C. Burrow
Joe Burman
Patrol
Joe M. Kelly
Kentucky National Guard
Burrow
Harlan
Weather Outlook for Tennessee Kentucky and Virginia
Tennessee tonight and Thursday will be slightly warmer with showers possible Friday in the west. Kentucky fairs, cooler tonight, warmer Thursday, and Friday showers. Virginia remains fair but cool with frost in western areas tonight, rising temperatures Thursday and warmer Friday.
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Tennessee
Kentucky
Virginia
Merchants Open Member Canvass In Kingsport Drive
The Kingsport Merchants Association launches a member canvass with two-person teams contacting all 220 area merchants to boost membership. Funds from the drive will publicize Kingsport as a trading hub for Southwest Virginia and upper East Tennessee, aided by highway billboards at key intersections.
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Kingsport
Virginia
Tennessee
Mechants Association
Delays Denied in Hearing on Miners Unemployment Benefits
Tennessee coal operators failed to gain a continuance for a hearing on whether more than 6,000 idle miners qualify for state unemployment compensation. The board ruled the absence of L C Gunter of the Southern Appalachian Coal Operators Association was not a valid reason for delay despite his vital witness role.
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Jacksboro
Tenn
Tennessee
L. C. Gunter
Southern Appalachian Coal Operators Association
State Labor Department
United Mine Workers of America
CTO
William Turnblazer
District 19
UMWA
R. O. Ross
Knoxville
Southern Railway
Cooper
John Aken
Nashville
Friel Hastings
Memphis
Gunter
New York
Union
Hal Clements, Sr
Clifford Lay
Nashville Officials Baffled by Five Kidnappings
Mayor Thomas Cummings urged a $1,000 reward for the capture of a kidnapper in Nashville amid reports of five incidents in six months. The mayor said two cases were undisclosed, while District Attorney J. Carlton Loser noted only two confirmed crimes, calling the rest abductions without clear motive.
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Nashville
Thomas L. Cummings
George Johnson
J. Carlton Loser
Cummings
Johnson
George F. Seeman
Dickson, Tenn
Sturdy Lou Gehrig: Mrs Gehrig Reveals His Iron Man Career
Eleanor Gehrig recalls Lou Gehrig stepping back from baseball after 14 seasons and 2,130 consecutive games. She notes his history of leaving when he felt he could not help the team and mentions his willingness to return if he chooses.
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Eleanor Gehrig
Yankees
Detroit
Lou
Sherty
Doctor Aids Thug At Pistol Point In Chicago
A wounded gunman and two accomplices forced Dr. Siegmund Hirschfeld at a tavern on North Western Avenue to extract a bullet with a razor blade. Patron Alex Ferguson was killed. two policemen were wounded in the botched holdup. The thug later taunted the doctor after the extraction.
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Chicago
Alex Ferguson
Western Avenue
Edwin MclIntyre
Philip Kelly
Siegmund Hirschfeld
Demos Expect To Defeat GOP Attack On Bill
President Roosevelt moves to complete new reorganization plans as House Democrats anticipate defeating a Republican bid to block his plan. The White House meeting with Budget Director Smith and the reorganization committee set the stage for Congress action next week.
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DEMOS
Bill
Washington
Roosevelt
House
Smith
White House
Congress
E.S.T
Rep. Taber
R.-N.y
Death of E H Crump's Son in Air Crash in Grenada
John Crump 28 son of the Tennessee Democratic figure E H Crump and two Memphis newspapermen were killed in a five plane aerocade aiding the Memphis Cotton Carnival tour. Victims included George Stokes 34 and reporter Ted Northington 31.
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Grenada
Miss
John Crump
Memphis
Tennessee
Crump
George Stokes
Memphis Commercial Appeal
Ted Northington
E. H. Crump
Shelby County
U. S
Young Crump
E. H. Crump & Co
Missouri
Alabama
Mississippi
R. D
Red) Forman
Kingsport Approves Street Widening Plan
The Kingsport board voted to widen Sullivan Street from The Circle to Center Street. Bid advertisements will include sidewalk work, with asphalt over old and new concrete to reach 41 feet. Cost estimated at 30 000, 12 681 to owners and 17 400 to the city.
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Kingsport
Sullivan Street
Circle
Center Street
Oscar King
Walter F. Smith
Kingsport Housing Authority
USHA
Kingsport Children Injured In Wreck Near Grandmother Home
Two Kingsport children ages 8 and 4 were injured when struck by a passing taxi near their grandmother Mrs Maude Ashworth’s Milligan residence in Kingsport vicinity.
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Kingsport
Elizabethton
Jack Pippin
Peggy Jean Pippin
Maude Ashworth
Milligan
Hitler seeks neutral bloc in Europe with Nordic states
Germany aims to form a neutral bloc across northern Europe offering non aggression pacts to Denmark Norway Sweden Finland and possibly Latvia Estonia while excluding Lithuania. Berlin hopes to isolate Poland and counter British French alliances amid Baltic and Aaland Island fortification talks.
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Louis P. Lochner
Berlin
Hitler
Europe
Denmark
Norway
Sweden
Finland
Latvia
Estonia
Lithuania
Aaland Islands
Baltic Sea
Bothnia Gulf
Baltic
Poland
Hungary
Germany
Roosevelt signs defense bill expanding arms and ships
President Roosevelt signed a bill providing 153 million dollars for critical defense items for the army, coast defenses and fleet expansion. Naval modernization seeks 6.66 million for five battleships Tennessee California Colorado Maryland West Virginia. Army buys tanks guns rifles gas masks and anti aircraft weapons totaling 110 million. Navy ship construction gets 36.5 million and seacoast defenses 6.54 million. Overall appropriations reach 162.3 million with 46.8 million in contract authorizations.
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Washington
Roosevelt
House Naval Committee
Tennessee
California
Colorado
Maryland
West Virginia
Army
Navy
Continental
United States
Panama Canal Zone
Insular
Johnson City Purges Illegally Registered Voters
Johnson City election officials purge 538 names from 886 registered voters amid a move to install a city manager form of government. Sam R. Taylor, election commission chairman, cites duplicates, outside residents, and vacant-address registrations as fraudulent and ongoing investigations continue.
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Johnson City
Tenn
Washington County Election Commission
Sam R. Taylor
Election Commission
Taylor
Lily Pons Second Uninvited Visitor Is Jailed
Norwalk Conn May 3 The second man to visit opera star Lily Pons uninvited was jailed on breach of the peace and disorderly conduct charges. Louis M Brucker 27 of Philadelphia known as Secret Operative X3 was arrested in the Pons driveway after a caretaker questioned him. He carried a portable typewriter an umbrella and a suitcase and said his credentials were lost.
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Norwalk
Conn
Lily Pons
Louis M. Brucker
Philadelphia
Arthur Casper
Pons
Brucker
Business leader laments Wagner Act at Chamber meeting
W. Gibson Carey Jr., likely next president of the U S Chamber of Commerce, denounced the Wagner Labor Relations Act as a national blight. He said it reduces productivity and jobs and destroys rights, urging its reform or repeal.
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W. Gibson Carey, Jr
Washington
Chamber of Commerce of the
United States
Carey
Nooga approves sale of whiskey in Chattanooga
Chattanooga May 3 Repealists won the first local option liquor referendum by 629 votes 6995 for repeal to 4469 against With eight small precincts unheard from nationwide liquor firms rushed in ready to name local agents and start sales once state licenses are issued Mayor Bass supported repeal saying it would bring needed revenue Prohibitionists gave no comment
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Chattanooga
Hamilton County
E. D. Bass
Britain open to exchanges of nonaggression assurances
Britain signals willingness to discuss reciprocal assurances with Germany and continues push for a British French Russian alliance. Geneva talks eyed for May 15 amid Baltic and Black Sea state considerations and Poland Romania has influenced Britain’s stance.
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London
Britain
France
Soviet Russia
Geneva
Chamberlain
Arthur Henderson
Russia
Baltic
Black Sea
Poland
Rumania
Great Britain
Finland
Estonia
Latvia
Lithuania
Viscount Halifax
Lord Halifax
Barrymore Seeks Separation and Accounting in $300000 Fund
Barrymore sues Elaine Barrie in a New York state supreme court action for separation and an accounting of over $300,000 of funds. The suit also names Barrie’s mother-in-law and two other individuals as parties. Barrie, 23 years younger than the actor, left his touring show in St Louis to pursue divorce. Barrymore is on tour in the West.
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New York
Japane More
Elaine Barrie
Supreme Court
Miss Barrie
S. Louis
Barrymore
West
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