Eight men jailed in Scott county mining attack
Special to The Times reports eight men in custody and two at large after an attack on two miners returning from Morrison and Penley mines in Scott county. Warrants list ten names. hearings set for next Thursday. The incident follows recent unionization efforts that closed several mines.
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Gate City
Scott County
Clifford McConnell
Echol
Atwell Hill
Morrison and Penley
UMW
McConnell
Arthur Dillon
Worley Maggard
Willard Shupe
Loren Kerns
Rich Whited
Noah Davis
Eriak Davis
Lester Davis
Rod Kerns
Homer Fields
Arthur Dillion
Williard Shupe
Tennessee and Kentucky Weather Tonight Through Wednesday
Local showers and thunderstorms are expected tonight and Wednesday in Tennessee and Kentucky with little temperature change. Scattered showers and thundershowers are forecast tonight and Wednesday in Kentucky with slightly cooler Wednesday.
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Tennessee
Kentucky
Squalus Trapped 62 Men In 240 Foot Deep Dive Off New Hampshire
The submarine Squalus with 62 crew aboard sank to 240 feet off White Island near the Isles of Shoals after a dive failed to close an induction valve. Navy divers and rescue ships moved to seal the valve and raise the vessel, with authorities hopeful most men could be saved. A red surface signal indicated distress as contact was made by the submarine Sculpin.
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Portsmouth
N. H
U. S
New Hampshire
Navy Yard
Coast Guard
White Island
Isles of Shoals
C. W. Cole
Sculpin
NAVY
France seeks defense pact with Britain and Soviet Russia
The French general staff pressed for a mutual assistance treaty linking Britain France and Soviet Russia to counter balance the Pome Berlin axis. Negotiations occupied League of Nations council talks in Geneva with Viscount Halifax reported to be pushing Britain to join a broader pact.
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Associated Press
Britain
France
Russia
Geneva
League of Nations Council
Viscount Halifax
Newsmen Strike at Chattanooga Paper After Vote
News unit of the Chattanooga Newspaper Guild picketed the paper amid a strike vote. Only a few editors and one reporter reported for work. Mechanical workers crossed later under a separate contract as strike action continues.
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Chattanooga
Chattanooga Newspaper Guild
Harry P. Clark
Clark
Travis K. Hedrick
Fror Guild
NOOGA
Strike Spreads Idleness Through Auto Industry
About 65,000 auto workers were idled as Briggs Manufacturing strike shut seven plants. Chrysler would close 10 plants across Detroit and Indiana, leaving only Dodge truck production, affecting 43,000 in Detroit and 3,400 in Indiana. Lincoln division of Ford employs 5,000 and trims output. Labor conciliator James F. Dewey arrived to seek settlement. Also note 400 million chickens on farms and 1.4 billion chicks hatched annually.
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Detroit
Briggs Manufacturing Company
Chrysler Corporation
Newcastle
Ind
Kokomo
Dodge Truck
Briggs Company
CIO
United Auto Workers Union
Chrysler
Indiana
Lincoln
Ford Motor Co
James F. Dewey
Roosevelt lets Congress lead on new spending plan
Washington reports Roosevelt will concede to congressional initiative for new federal spending while Senator Byrd warns against further deficits. Byrd cites 10 billion dollar year starting July 1 and calls borrowing to purchase prosperity a failed policy after six years.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Byrd
D-Va
King Queen Visit Sparks Shine for Quintuplets in Toronto
King George and Queen Elizabeth meet the Dionne Quintuplets during a royal visit. The babies charmed their Majesties in Toronto, while all others on the royal party rested after the trip. The quints return to Callander nursery as family and staff recover from the outing.
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Nursery
England
Miss
Emilie
Monkey
Annette
Cecile
Bunny
Marie
Yvonne
Winnipeg
King George
Queen Elizabeth
Lake Superior
Callander Nursery
Toronto
Allan Roy DeFoe
DeFoe
Cooper refuses to re hire Kuhne in Tennessee
Governor Cooper said Eugene Kuhne, who discharged a state fish technician, would not be re employed by the state. Kuhne had told a WPA investigator that Cooper and other prominent persons benefited from WPA lake construction in Tennessee.
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Nashville
Cooper
Eugene Kuhne
Kuhne
WPA
Tennessee
Conservation Department
Republic Sues for Millions Against Union
Republic Steel files a 7.5 million dollar lawsuit in federal court against CIO leaders John L. Lewis and Philip Murray and 700 Ohioans alleging conspiracy to close plants across multiple states. The suit accuses mobs and violence to disrupt operations and interstate shipping.
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Cleveland
Republic Steep Corp
Congress of Industrial Organizations
Little Steel
Republic
John L. Lewis
CIO
Philip Murray
Steel Workers Organizing Committee
Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers of North America
Steel Company
Tom Girdler
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Maryland
Illinois
New York
Waiter Sought as Propagandist in Harmonie Club Probe
Washington May 23 Officials of the Harmonie Club in New York joined Dies committee agents in seeking a mysterious club waiter named George Rice who allegedly passed on anti semitic propaganda to Dudley P Gilbert. Gilbert testified he circulated the material to 40 people including James E Campbell who admitted it targeted a certain race. Military action was proposed as a remedy to seize control of the government.
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Washington
Harmonie Club
New York City
Dies Committee
Dies
D-Tex
House Committee On un-American Activities
George Rice
Dudley P. Gilbert
New York
Gilbert
James E. Campbell
Owensboro
Campbell
McWhirter seeks inquiry motive over Hull blood link
Felix M. McWhirter the Indianapolis banker told the House an American investigating committee his sole aim in probing whether Mrs Cordell Hull had Jewish ancestry was to gain information for himself. The Palestine policy debate in London saw the government prevail 268 to 179. In Kentucky a student demonstration at Morehead State Teachers College over the loss of Dean C F Nickell ended with most participants returning to class.
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Mwhirter
Washington
Felix M. McWhirter
Indianapolis
House
Cordell Hull
House of Commons
Lords
London
Morehead
Morehead State Teachers College
C. F. Nickell
Queen Mother Escapes Injury In London Car Wreck
Queen Mary, widow of King George V, was in a car that overturned in Putney west London. She appeared badly shaken but was not seriously hurt and was driven away after receiving aid at a doctor's house. A house painter helped her from the overturned vehicle.
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London
Queen Mother Mary
Putney
Queen Mary
George V
Queen Mother
Escape attempt fatal to Negroes at Cummins Prison Farm
Two Black convicts, Archie Goodwin and James Patterson, were killed in a hand to hand clash with trusted guards after a stockade break during a prison storm near Cummins Arkansas. Guard Willie Rayford, also Black, was later captured and jailed for life for murder.
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Arkansas
Cummins Prison Farm
Ark
Archie Goodwin
Ouachita County
James Patterson
Columbia County
R. I. Martin
Martin
Goodwin
Patterson
Trusty
Cummins
Gould
Willie Rayford
Lane Acquitted in Sullivan County Traffic Death
A Sullivan circuit court jury acquitted G. D. Lane of manslaughter in the death of E. H. Dougherty of Kingsport after more than four hours of deliberation. The Dec. death occurred after Lane slowed at Maple Street near a Bussell's station and skid marks were measured by five witnesses.
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Times
Blountville
Sullivan
G. D. Lane
E. H. Dougherty
Kingsport
Dougherty
Shelburne Ferguson
Ferguson
Henry Russell
Leathie Livesay
Maple Street
Buss L’s
Lane
Governor Cooper faces criticism of Tennessee press
Nashville May 23 Governor Cooper, back at his desk after a Washington New York trip, criticizes some state newspapers for a destructive attitude while praising the overall press. He pushed the Norris TVA bill and outlined civil service plans and a World’s Fair exhibit improvements.
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Nashville
Cooper
Washington
New York
Tennessee
Norris-Tva
Tennessee Electric Power Company
TVA
TEPCO
Civil Service Commission
Remarkable Credit Record By Tennessee FSA Borrowers
Dr. W W Alexander described the Tennessee FSA program as producing a remarkable credit record for low income borrowers. In Tennessee 8 777 borrowers had repaid 1 241 920 57 of 2 347 172 35 borrowed, mostly for five years. One year of rehabilitation raised net worth by 1 940 239 with an average gain of 401 13 per family.
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Ernest B. Vaccaro
Washington
W. W. Alexander
Farm Security Administration
Tennessee
Alexander
FSA
Alex
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Yestern
Darby Coal Company
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Meeeee
News Guild
United States
Frank H. King
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In Dies Hearing
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Superior Coal Company
America
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General Motors
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Sloan
American Retail Federation
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