Italians Accused Violating League Covenant in Spain
The Spanish government charged Italy with the most scandalous violation of League of Nations principles since World War I. A white book of documents claims Italy aided the insurgents, prolonged the war, and violated article ten of the League covenant. Britain’s armistice plans for Spain were nearly abandoned as truce talks and non intervention efforts continued.
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Geneva
Italy
Spain
Itaty
London
Puropean Non-Intervention Committee
Grandpa Davis Claims Ohio’s Oldest Resident Title
At 112 years old, John Henry Davis asserts he is Ohio’s oldest resident with 12 living children, 9 grandchildren, 108 great grandchildren, and 4 great great grandchildren. He lives near Bainbridge with his daughter and reads without glasses, votes in elections since 1846 except 1935, and chews tobacco.
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John Henry Davis
Ohio
United States
Davis
Bainbridge, O
Central Press
Weather outlook with scattered thunderstorms tonight
Scattered thundershowers across regions with clearing by Friday morning in parts. Virginia expect showers tonight with clearing Friday morning. Kentucky reports local thundershowers this afternoon and tonight, cooler in the north with Friday generally fair.
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Lundershoweers
Thessee
Virginia
Kentucky
North
Scottsboro jurist accused of denying Patterson constitutional rights
Alabama Supreme Court heard defense claims that Heywood Patterson was denied constitutional rights in the fourth circuit trial. Clarence Watts argued Judge Callahan erred by allowing testimony from Dr. R. R. Bridges from a prior proceeding to corroborate the prosecution in the Scottsboro case.
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Montgomery
Ala
Heywood Patterson
Scottsboro
Alabama Supreme Court
Fourth Circuit
Patterson
Clarence L. Watts
W. W. Callahan
Callahan
Watts
R. R. Bridges
Bridges
Chamberlain Set for New Position
London May 27 AP Nasmy MacDonald offered his resignation as lord president after talks with King George VI at Buckingham Palace. He did not surrender his seal of office and a general exchange of seals will occur when a new cabinet forms following the retirement of Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin this week.
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London
Namsay MacDonald
George VI
Bubtenghur Patner
Stanley Baldwin
Utilities test validity loans for public use
Utility interests ask the supreme court to rule on the constitutionality of federal grants and loans for publicly owned power plants. The case tests delegation of power and the general welfare clause amid ongoing PWA projects in Alabama and Iowa. a ruling could affect 40 municipal plants and $50 million in allocations.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Roosevelt
Congress
Clark Foreman
PWA Power Division
United States Court of Appeals
PWA
Alabama
Iowa
Alabama Power Co
Iowa City Light and Power Co
Cardozo
Newton D. Baker
Iire
Tennessee to Enforce New Traffic Law Across State
Nashville May 27 Ten nessee motorists face arrest for driving too slow under a new law officials say modernizes vehicle statutes Highway Patrol Chief Joe B Williams notes the rule requires a careful speed not greater nor less than reasonable and proper He gives an example of a motorist at 15 mph blocking traffic and says patrols will order faster driving or removal from the highway The law also tightens definitions of reckless driving sets speed limits in zones and requires signals when turning but the report continues on page twelve.
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Nashville
Tennessee
Highway Patrol
Joe B. Williams
Williams
Press flays church over Windsor wedding actions
Windsor English press criticizes the Church of England for its treatment of the Duke of Windsor and Mrs Wallis War as editors question if the monarch is being ostracized ahead of his June 3 wedding at the Chateau de Candé. The Daily Express denounces government pressure on guests and duty-bound curbs amid abdication fallout.
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Lordon
Pesertit Keaverbronk
Church of
Eenthindg
Duke of Windsor
Wallis War
Britain
Pay Express
Church
Chateau de Cande
Mas Oons
Excor
Wich
Edward
Coeds Duck Seniors Stunt Led to Dormitory Stand Off
In Johnson City Tennessee May group of State Teachers College coEDS staged four noisy two hour demonstrations in the girls dormitory after being barred from emulating male students in the annual ducking stunt. Authorities locked dormitory doors and ended the protests about midnight with a complete victory for officials.
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Johnson City
Tenn
May
State Teachers College
Grace Robb
Muatron
Oil dealers draw prison sentences in gas tax case
Nashville May 27 Indicted Knoxville oil dealers Paulp E B Jones and Frank Preston pleaded guilty to conspiracy to defraud the state in gas tax evasion. They received more than five years in state prison and a $1000 fine. The defendants plan to appeal or seek a suspended sentence.
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Nashville
Paulp EB. Jones
Frank Preston
Knoxville
Plan
W. W. Piper
Charles H. Smith, Jr
J. H. Campbell
Texas
Harle Hudson
Hudson
Husband Held in Wife's Death in Tennessee Farm Case
John W. Davis aged 65 a Tennessee farmer was held without bond for a preliminary hearing after a coroner jury ruled his wife Jodie died from a supposed illegal operation. Autopsy showed blood poisoning. Davis said the couple lived in poverty and cared for a plow work by hand with their 14 year old son present. He denied forcing any act and said if anything happened it was by her will. The operation reportedly occurred Friday night with Mrs. Davis dying early yesterday.
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Woodbury
Tenn
John W. Davis
John T. Smith
Davis
Jodie
Smith
Wallace Seeks Hasty Passage of 1937 AAA Act
Secretary Wallace urged early enactment of the proposed agricultural adjustment act of 1937 to safeguard the food supply and farm income. Senator Jones cautioned against hasty action, warning a rushed bill could be blocked by injunction or litigation. Meanwhile TVA litigation spurred a Supreme Court hearing on a group of Tennessee Valley utilities seeking a speedy trial to curb TVA activities. Government lawyers awaited decisions on the case and on loans for public power projects.
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Washington
Maz
Wallace
Jones
D-Tex
American Farm Bureau
Roosevelt Administration
Tennessee Valley Authority
Supreme Court
Tennessee Valley
High Court
Tennessee Federal District Court
TVA
Union Men Blame Ford for Attack at Ford Plant
United Automobile Workers organizers led a clash at the Ford Motor Co plant gates in Detroit. 18 union members and eight women were injured as Ford service men fought back, triggering investigations by the Lafollette committee, the NLRB, and county prosecutors. The union vows prosecutions. Ford cites a frame-up. Canada’s park system noted at end.
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Detroit
United Automobile Workers of America
Ford Motor
Gates
Richard T. Frankensteen
U.A.W.A
Ford Workers
Walter Reuthers
West Side
Frankensteen
Ford
Rouge
Reuther
Harry H. Bennett
Lafollette
Senate Civil Liberties Committee
Robert M. Lafollette
Strike Grips Three Independent Steel Plants as 70,000 Idle
Nearly 70,000 workers at Inland Steel Republic Steel and Youngstown Sheet and Tube walk off over bargaining rights. Picket clashes erupt in Canton Ohio and South Chicago as the steel strike widens. AFL plans counter moves while CIO targets industry wide unionization.
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AFL
Fteel
American Federation of Labor
Cincinnati
John L.lewis
A. F. of L
TEPC ASKS SPEEDY HEARING FOR TVA
The Tennessee Electric Power Co and 18 utilities urged the Supreme Court to allow a quick trial in the eastern Tennessee federal district court on their petition to limit TVA operations in eight states. They sought to overturn a Sixth Circuit ruling dissolving a temporary injunction stopping TVA expansion and argued for a merits hearing soon.
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Washington
Tennessee Electric Power Company
Supreme Court
Tennessee Federal District Court
Tennessee Valley Authority
Thieh Tribunal
TVA
Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals
Federal District Court
District Court
Circuit Court of Appeals
Four Die In California Plane Crash Near Santa Maria
A PIA chartered monoplane faltered on takeoff near Santa Maria airport, killing four aboard. Victims include Mrs. C. Vu Whitney and Mrs. D. K. Fauntleroy of Carmel, Harry F. Emme of Los Angeles, and pilot Bud Keenan of Burbank. Witness says the plane stalled and exploded on impact. Pilot decapitated, bodies not recovered for an hour and a half. Emme reportedly invited companions to Los Angeles. Keenan had earlier aided an eloping couple in Las Vegas.
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Santa Maria
Calif
PIA
C. Vu. Whitney
D. K. Fauntleroy
Carmel
Harry F. Emme
Los Angeles
Bud Keenan
Joe Lewis Air Service
Burbank
L. Ball
Lockheed
Emme
Otto J. Emme
CCC Clerk Baumgartner Fasts After Dismissal From Work
Rossville Ga May 27 Former CCC clerk at Fort Oglethorpe dismissed for a hunger strike against corps conditions says he will continue fasting all summer if needed. He insists he acted to reveal corrupt practices and keep pressure on authorities while on regal sick leave, disputing insubordination charges. Continued on page three.
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Atlanta
Forth Corps Area
Baumgartner
70,000 Steel Workers Walkout Shuts In Five States
An orderly strike of more than 70,000 workers called by the committee for industrial organization cripples steel operations across five states. In Ohio's Mahoning valley 32,000 are idle as Republic Steel and Youngstown Sheet & Tube face a 100 percent plant tie-up while others remain operating under protest. The strike hit Inland Steel in Chicago, with 25,000 affected, as unions push for bargaining contracts and a closed shop.
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Associated Press
Steel Workers Organizing Committee
J. O
Inland Steel ‘Corporation
Republic Steel Corporation
Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company
Associated Prose
Youngstown
Ohio
Committee For Industrial Organization
Great Lakes
Mahoning Valley
Republic Steel Corp
Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co
Whitch
C. I
Chicago
Swee
Philip Murray
Inland Steel Co
SWOC
John L. Lewis
U.S. Steel Corp
Ma- Moning
Republic
Lnion
Bufffala Urea
I. Q
South
Buffalo
Husky ml
Firma
Gulf
Canada
U. S. Steel Corp
Cleveland
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