Labor hints third party for Tennessee in 1944
A legislative report by Tennessee labor groups condemns Governor Browning as out of step with social legislation and promises. It urges workers to seek a third party, criticizing limited labor influence and alleging state government favors corporations. The document cites labor chair H V Reid and names involved unions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Memphis
Ave Tennessee Labor
Browning
H. V. Reid
Reid
Tennessee Federation of Labor
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
Brotherhood of
Order of
Tennessee
General Assembly
Ing
Roosevelt
Charles Gilbert
Tennessee Manufacturers’ Association
Department of Labor
Union
Discovery of bones revives crime case in Kentucky
In Kentucky on September 3 a find of human bones near Little’s Creek prompted officers to review missing persons reports from the past two decades. James Goff of the sheriff’s office identified the remains as an adult male shot in the head. Sheriff R A Collier recalled a 20 year old disappearance of Tom Allen in the same district where the bones were found by a hunter while groundhogs were being hunted.
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Jackson
Little
Cormier James Goff
R. A. Collier
Tom Allen
Hero
Woman-hunt man sought after alley grab near Seattle
Seattle police probe a coat pocket grabber described as having a round moist stain on the back of his coat. Mrs. Sybil O Taylor, 19, reports she was munching an apple when a man seized at her, she escaped, and he fled after a brief chase. Report also notes Paris living costs up 22 percent and rural France up about 23 percent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seattle
Wash
Weather Outlook for Tennessee Virginia and Kentucky
Partly cloudy conditions across Tennessee with a cloudy Saturday expect showers in western areas. Virginia will be generally fair with Saturday partly cloudy skies and possible showers in the north. Kentucky turns cloudy with likely showers Saturday and cooler by Saturday.
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Tennessee
West
Virginia
North
Kentucky
Air race stars begin cross country dash from Los Angeles
Seven of the fastest American planes sped east from Los Angeles toward Cleveland and a $25,090 Bendix prize. Jacqueline Cochran led the field in a Beechcraft, fastest start yet amid sun and wind at Union Air Terminal.
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E Devon Francis
Cleveland
Los Angeles
Vincent Bendis
Jacqueline Cochran
Indie
Calif
Floyd B. Odlum
Atlas Corporation
Army
Navy
Marine Corps
Ee Miles
Fort Worth
Tex
Burbanix
Iss
Cochran
Wichita
Kas
Earl Ortman
Alburquerque
Milo Burcham
Long Beach
Oklahoma
City
Joseph Mackey
Findlay
Roscoe Turner
Wedell-Williams
Albuquerque
R. E. Perlick
Glendale
Union Air Terminal
Miss Cochran
Turner Ace
Col
Georgia Governor Actions Spur Chain Gang Escapes
Atlanta dispatch reports eight more Georgia chain gang convicts at large as Gov. Rivers cites Gov. Hurley’s Massachusetts parole stance. Willis, a black escapee freed to serve nine months in Massachusetts, leads a wave of six additional convicts seeking relocation. Seven men escaped in Banks County from a chain panel in North Carolina as the feud broadens.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlanta
Georgia
E. D. Rivers
Fleming Willis
Massachusetts
Willis
Hurley
Rivers
Terday
Banks County
North Carolina
Sex Crazed Man Pleads Innocent in Youth Killing
Joseph Pimental, 24, described by Boston police as a sex crazed killer, pleads innocent to murder in the Cambridge slaying of five year old Chester Harris. He allegedly confessed to burial of the boy and molesting two other youths.
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Boston
Joseph Pimental
Easeibe
Canmu
Joseph F. Trimly
Chester Harris
Cambridge
Pimental
Boston Beverage
Je Es M. Daley
Beimes
Holmes
Pirsental
Lewis Will Seek Farm Labor Alliance in Broadcast
John L. Lewis announced he will push a political alliance of farmers and labor in a CBS broadcast from 2 30 to 10 p m eastern time He called farmers natural allies of labor and promised to discuss methods to consolidate this alliance The speech marks the first in a series of labor leader addresses amid CIO AFL tensions and signals of pro Labor Day activities by leaders including William Green Joan Frey and John Braphy
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
John L. Lewis
Labor
Committee For Industrial Organization
Lewis
Raido
CBS
Lundeen
Farmer Labor
Minnesota
CIO
American Federation of Labor
William Green
A. F
Dallas
Joan Frey
L. Metal Trades
John Braphy
Perking
Sun—asy
Girl 13 Mother of 9 Pound Son in Sevierville
Sevierville Tennessee September 3 Thirteen year old Lola Bell Fore said she married at eleven and is mother of a nine pound baby boy named Eve Her husband Willard Hurst 25 has not seen the child and may be in North Carolina A Sevierville physician Dr R J Ingle noted the young mother quit the third grade in 1935 to marry Hurst She lives with her father Mack Dyer near Sevierville
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Sevierville
Tenn
Lola Bellfore
Willard Hurst
Eve
North Carolina
R. J. Ingle
Segierville
Hurst
Mack Dyer
Here
Right to liquor vote brief argues delay harms election
Tennessee state board of elections urged denial of an injunction to block the September 23 prohibition repeal referendum. In a 36 page brief filed in Chancellor Howell's court the board argued delay, validity of the referendum statute, and lack of court jurisdiction. The filing noted the petition came late Wednesday with election planning underway and warned rush could prevent a future election. Continued on page eight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nashville
State Board of Elections
Legal Department
R. B. C. Howell
Chancery Court
Snyder Will Back High Speed Roads Plan
Washington dispatch reports Representative Snyder plans to urge Congress to finance nine super highways for rapid military movement with coast to coast routes and Canada to Gulf of Mexico lines. Each 200 feet wide with a large intersection airport at 18 points, total cost about 8 billion dollars. He cites defense and peacetime use, air bases in Alaska, and a defense fund possibly exceeding last session's 931 million.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
FPI
Snyder
D-Pa
Congress
Canada
Gulf of Mexico
House
Pennsylvanian
Alaska
National Defense Fund
Typhoon Rages Northward Hongkong Sept 3 AP Brief
Hongkong battered by a devastating typhoon roars northward leaving harbor crowded with wreckage and casualties. The storm likely to hit the Chinese coast near war-torn Shanghai. Also Spanish submarine C4 bomb damage reported near Bordaux with Vauques monitoring repairs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hongkong
Shanghai
Rbomes Bordhaux
Vauques
Gun Battle Kills Five in Ohio Crystal Lake Shootout
In Springfield Ohio a gun fight at Crystal Lake left five dead after a cafe proprietor robbery. Victims include a Springfield policeman, a deputy sheriff, and two bandits. The clash followed a $1297 robbery 15 miles southwest of Springfield.
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Springfield
Ohio
Crystal Lake
Tarpon Sinking Murk Amid Sea Rescue Efforts
At Anaima City Florida on September 3 1942 news reports the Sunken Tarpon steamship off East Pacific coast near Mexico left 25 men missing and 29 aboard with 14 burned bodies recovered. Survivors include nine rescued by the Triton and multiple crewmen clinging to wreckage for hours. Source notes the vessel carried 10 white and about 19 Negro crewmen with possible cargo shift as a sinking cause.
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Anaima City
Fla
Hoy Seas
Mexico
W. G. Barrow
W. H. Russellcere
Mobile
Addisy
George and
W. R. Wolfe
Clyde McMillan
George Boykin
Cecil Smith
Ala
Nixon Davis
L. E. Danford
Standrews
Wiliam C. McKnight
Carrabelle
Floyd B. Mattair
Pensacola
F.C. O'Connor
Mitchell to Tour South for Race Relations Progress
Representative Arthur W. Mitchell plans a September 14 departure from Washington on a tour of southern and southwestern states to observe progress in white and colored races relations. He will visit Roanoke Virginia Asheville North Carolina Raleigh Durham Winston-Salem Savannah Augusta Atlanta Opelika La Fayette Roanoke Tuskegee Montgomery Selma Marion Greensboro Uniontown Demopolis and Yor County communities, conference with citizens, but says the trip is observation not speech making.
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Washington
Arthur W. Mitchell
Chicago
Mitchell
Roosevelt
South America
Booker T. Washington
Roanoke
Asheville
Henderson
Raleigh
Durham
Winston- Salem
N. C
Georgia
Savannah
Augusta
Aulahta
West Point
Opelka
LaFayette
Tuskegee
Montgomery
Selma
Marion
Greenstoro
Uniontown
Demopolis
Yori
State employes vacations ruling in Nashville
Welfare Commissioner George Cate seeks ruling on whether the personnel division may grant or deny vacations to state employees who were fired after one year of service. The issue arises from a man discharged August 1 after starting work in January 1936 who had not taken a vacation.
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Nassville
George Cate
Neutrality Act enforcement not necessary amid Far East conflict
A source near the state department said there is no immediate need to invoke the Neutrality Act in the Japan China dispute. They cautioned that rapid Far East developments could alter the situation and noted the act would embargo arms and munitions, offering no greater safeguard than Admiral Yarnell's order closing Shanghai harbor.
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Washington
State Department
Japan
China
Far East
Harry E. Yarnell
Shanghai
Cotton farmers map legislation in cotton states meeting
Memph is Sept 3 1945 agri culture commissioners from 13 cotton producing states gathered to map farm policy for Congress. They criticized Henry Wallace plan to grant subsidies based on production percentage and discussed the cotton loan and price support program. They plan to submit recommendations to the Senate agriculture committee and hearings in the South. Weather and rains in Alabama blamed for reduced yield and lower crop quality.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Memphis
Agriculture Commissioners
Mame
Department of Aagriculture
Cneget
Henry Wallace
Harry D. Wilson
Baton Rouge
Association of Southern Commissioners of Agriculture
Senate Agriculture Committee
J. Gonde
Montgomery
Ala
Association
Alabama
Machinist Repairs Brakes Then Causes Car Crash
In Omaha Neh Mrs Blanch Kohlert had her brakes fixed by garageman Howard Peters. She drove home and as she turned into her driveway another car struck her vehicle. The other driver was Howard Peters.
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Omaha
Rout of Army Forces Changes in Jap Plans
Shanghai dispatch details a Chinese counteroffensive that disrupts Japanese plans and endangers Western fleets and civilians. Chinese artillery, machine guns, and naval fire hit Japanese transports, warships, and the Bund area, wounding several Japanese and forcing Tokyo to adapt strategy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James A. Mills
Shanghai
Ching
Japan
U. & Barracks
United States Marine Battalion
Peking Road
Bund
International Settlement
U. S
Augusta
Whangpoo
Hangkew
Pootung
Whangpoi
International Shanghai
Associated Press
Buhpling Well
Sharpnel
Bronx Cheer Artists Defeat Theater Booing Drive in Ga
In Tifton, Georgia, September 3, booing supporters celebrated a court victory as a temporary injunction against anti booing ads was withdrawn. Herman Gill, spokesman for Local No 3 of the Booing Society, promised more boos while theater loudspeakers were turned up, mixing boos with ads in a noisy night.
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Bronx
Tifton
Herman Gill
Society
Hill
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Dizzy Dean
Paris
France
Nanyuane
Peiping
Nanyuan
General Chaingang
Gov. Hurley
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Newman
Offeers
J. H Harvey
Harlan
Pi.c
Keys
Tom Cornett
Williamsburg
James M. Gilbert
C. Ball
Hamp Ball
Dee
Yersel
Negro Solon
South
Cotton Farmers
Tifton Gap
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