Coal strike widens as 453000 miners idle and 95000 more quit
New York May 5 The soft coal industry shut down further with 453000 miners idle and 95000 more prepared to join by midnight. The walkout, the largest since 1922, follows contract talks between John L. Lewis and bituminous operators. Labor Secretary Perkins hopes for a possible accord as negotiations stalled.
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New York
John L. Lewis
CIO
United Mine Workers of America
Washington
Perkins
Pennsylvania
Ohio
West Virginia
Michigan
Kentucky
Virginia
Tennessee
Maryland
Alabama
Illinois
Diana
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Tennessee Virginia Kentucky Weekend Weather Forecast
Weather notes for Tennessee Virginia and Kentucky indicate fair and warmer conditions tonight with increasing clouds Saturday and Sunday showers. In Virginia expect fair weather with warmer western areas and cooler coastal regions and Sunday showers. Kentucky similar with local showers possible late Saturday and Sunday showers.
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Tennessee
Virginia
Kentucky
Body of Edward Schneider, Pendergast aide, found in Missouri River
The body of Edward L. Schneider, 46, a business aide of Boss Tom Pendergast, was recovered from the Missouri River. His car, found on a river bridge, held two notes indicating self-harm. He had testified before a federal grand jury the prior Friday as Pendergast faced income tax evasion charges.
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Missouri River
Edward L. Schneider
Tom Pendergast
Kansas City
T. Ae Pendergast
Schneider
Pendergast
Kansas City Water Department
Socialite Accused in Smuggling Raid
The treasury department said customs agents seized about $30,000 worth of Parisian gowns and jewelry from the apartment of Mrs. James C. Ayer. The items were alleged to be smuggled into the country according to officials.
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J. C. Ayer
New York
Treasury Department
James C. Ayer
Social Register
Cats blamed for breaking 22 year marriage suit
Ervin Bensinger files a divorce complaint alleging his wife allowed four cats free run of the house and on the dinner table. He says she caused him to repair their pens in the rain and he nearly died of pneumonia.
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Los Angeles
Ervin Bensinger
Dominion of Canada Leads World in Platinum Output
For over four years Canada has been the leading producer of platinum surpassing Russia in 1934, highlighting national mineral output dominance and shifting global supply dynamics.
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Dominion of Canada
Russia
Youth Kills Widow and Self After Forced Marriage Fails
In Jackson Tennessee a 20 year old man shot and killed 70 year old Alma Nell Donnell in the county courthouse area and then killed himself after a fake bomb failed to secure a marriage to the widow. Oklahoma City residents were the deceased. Witnesses described a rapid fatal sequence as the youth fired through a car window.
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Jackson
Tenn
H. R. Belew
Alma J. Donnell
Lee J. Burns
Oklahoma City
Okla
Burns
Guy R. Windrom
The
Jackson Sun
Windrom
Dulble
Britain Agrees to Soviet Plan for Alliance
The British government accepted the Soviet proposal to form a British French and Russian military alliance and offered a supplementary plan to aid Poland and Romania against possible aggression. The pact would obligate aid among the three powers if attacked by a European power, but not apply to Japan in the Far East.
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Tindon
Russia
Poland
Rumania
Britain
France
Far East
Japan
Moscow
Foreign Affairs Committee
Bondsmen Charged With Fixing Suits In Tennessee Case
A warrant charging fixing lawsuits was served on Charlie Rice and L W Henriott, agents of the Tennessee Bonding Co, by Magistrate M M Chase. Each posted $250 bonds for a 2 p m Monday preliminary hearing. Henriott also faces a separate charge for failing to issue a required receipt as a bondsman.
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Charlie Rice
L. W. Henriott
Tennessee Bonding Company
M. M. Chase
Warant Henriott
State of
Tennessee
H. C. Cowden
Cowden
Women Annoyers Ordered Jailed By City Judge
City Judge Napoleon Bond ordered police to arrest youths who molest women on streets after the trial of Leon Moser 18 who was charged with annoying three married passersby. Moser fined 10 dollars with costs. judge urged warrants on complaints and warned the public.
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Napoleon Bond
Leon Moser
Moser
Blue Ribbon Winners Parade Led Kingsport Students
A health parade in Kingsport featured 1413 students from Jackson Lincoln Washington and Robert E. Lee schools. Jackson school won permanent possession of the health trophy with 414 Blue Ribbons and 109 percent. Lincoln earned a gold seal for 495 ribbons and 93 percent. Washington earned a Blue Seal for 412 ribbons and 89 percent.
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Dobyns-Bennett High School
Kingsport Grammar
Jackson School
Jackson
Lincoln
Washington
Robert E. Lee
Clinchfield
J. W. Erwin
Sullivan County Health Department
Lincoln School
Washington School
Kingsport
W. H. Tanksley
County Health Department
Tennessee Bankers Elect New Officers At Annual Meet
Leslie R. Driver of First National Bank Bristol was chosen president of the Tennessee Bankers Association at the Chattanooga convention. He previously chaired the association's executive council. Sylvane Freed of Trenton was named chairman of the executive council, with officers Grover Graves Athens J B Walker Centerville and C E Dean Union City. Bradley Currey of Chattanooga named to the executive council.
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Chattanooga
Leslie R. Driver
First National Bank
Bristol
Tennessee Bankers Association
Sylvane Freed Trenton
East Tennessee
Grover C. Graves
Athens
Middle Tennessee
J. B. Walker, Jr
Centerville
West Tennessee
C. E. Dean
Union City
Bradley Currey
Rob
Bankers’ Meet
Page
Rumor Duke Ernst Hohenberg Died in Nazi Camp
Vienna rumors claim Duke Ernst Hohenberg son of Archduke Franz Ferdinand died in a Buchenwalde concentration camp. Ernst aged 35 and his brother Max, 37, were arrested after Austria’s 1938 Anschluss. Max was released months earlier.
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Vienna
Ernst Hohenberg
Franz Ferdinand
Buchenwalde
Germany
Duke Ernst
Max
Sarajevo
Beck Rejects Negotiations Basis in Berlin Reply
Berlin commentary service Kenst Aus Deutschland says German reply to Polish Foreign Minister Beck offers no basis for further talks. In Louisville ten three year olds enter Kentucky Derby field led by Johnstown for the 65th Derby run tomorrow. Coal operators and United Mine Workers plan committees to meet with John R. Steelman to break the labor contract deadlock. France and the United States work on measures to prevent tax frauds and boost treasuries. Glenn L. Martin denies any Martin aircraft bombing planes saw action in the Spanish Civil War.
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Berlin
Germany
Kenst Aus Deutschland
Louisville
Johnstown
Steelman
New York
United Mine Workers
CTO
John R. Steelman
U. S. Labor Department
France
Paris
Paul Reynaud
Chamber of Deputies
Finnance Committee
United States
Hitler weighs Becks reply in Berchtesgaden conference
Reichsführer Hitler summoned Joachim von Ribbentrop Albert Forster and Arthur Greiser for a Berchtesgaden meeting to assess Col Joseph Beck's Warsaw speech. Ribbentrop would visit Lake Como for talks with Italy's Galeazzo Ciano.
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Berlin
DNB
Beck
Danzig
Pomorze
Hitler
von Ribbentrop
Lake Como
Count Galeazzo Ciano
Berchtesgaden
Warsaw
Foreign Office
Propaganda Ministry
Blame by Union Leader On Mine Closings
William Turnblazer of Jellico argues coal operators shut down mines by rejecting two union compromise plans. He contends 6,000 Tennessee miners were idle and eligible for 16 weeks of unemployment benefits at $16 weekly, while the board denied dismissal of the operators’ appeal.
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Jacksboro
Tenn
Board of Review
Tennessee
William Turnblazer
Jellico, Tenn
District 19
UMW
Turnblazer
State Labor Department
Purgers Predict Fair J C Vote
Johnson City Tennessee May 5 The Washington county election commission purged Johnson City's registration lists to ensure a fair municipal election next Tuesday. Commissioner Sam R. Taylor and secretary Hubert Brooks said about half of the 10 000 names were removed due to irregularities mainly inadvertent double registrations and mistakes, not fraud.
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Johnson City
Tenn
Washington County Election Commission
Sam R. Taylor
Hubert Brooks
Commission
Taylor
Brooks
J. C. Purge
Pace
Illinois Central Train Kills Three WPA Workers in Millington
The Illinois Central Chickasaw passenger train from St Louis to Memphis struck a coupe at a grade crossing in Millington Tennessee killing three WPA workers Andy Oglesby 28 Dan Sigler 26 and William Berryhill 25 residents of a nearby community as witnesses differed on cause the wreckage strewn along the tracks for about 100 yards and the crossing is on main street near Millington 20 miles northeast of Memphis.
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Millington
Illinois Central
St. Louis
Memphis
WPA
W. B. Williams
Andy Oglesby
Dan Sigler
William Berryhill
Here
Williams
Main Street
Levy on wealthy for war approved by Senate committee
The Senate military committee approved a bill to draft capital in a defense emergency. It would trigger a wealth census and require citizens to buy 50 year war bonds at 1 percent interest, with a graduated share of net wealth to invest. The plan, proposed by Senator Lee of Oklahoma, denies confiscation of wealth.
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Washington
Senate Military Committee
Lee
D.-Okla
Oklahoma
Nazis Profit Likely From Litvinoff Departure
The report argues Nazi Germany would gain whether Litvinoff retires or remains, as Russia's new proposal to England and France for a triple alliance could remove a persistent foe and remove a major barrier, with Berlin and Rome seeing Litvinoff’s elimination as a definite advantage.
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Dewitt MacKenzie
Associated Press
New York
Litvinoff
Nazi Germany
England
France
Beck Rejects Hitler Demands on Danzig Corridor
Poland's Col. Joseph Beck rejected Germany's demands for Danzig and a right of way through the Polish corridor as one sided while leaving room for peaceful talks. He said Poland would negotiate only on terms that preserve sovereignty, outlined four musts, and delivered a memorandum to Berlin today. The speech drew applause from diplomats including U S ambassador Anthony Drexel Biddle Jr. and emphasized Poland's commitment to honor over peace at any price.
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Poland
Joseph Beck
Germany
Adolf Hitler
Danzig
Beck
Berlin
Warsan
Adolf Hans von Moltke
U. S
Anthony Drexel Biddle, Jr
Baltic
Pomorze
East Prussia
Hitler
Britain
Bloody Harlan remembrance on eight year anniversary clash
In Harlan Kentucky on May 5 eight years after a gun battle left four dead the region faces renewed labor tensions. Mine operators discreetly resume work while union forces hold a no work policy amid deadlocked New York contract talks. Violence recurs as memories of the Evarts battle echo in the county's coal fields.
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Harlan County
United Min
New York
Evarts
Here
South
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