Pickets Slain in Honea Path Textile Clash
In Honea Path South Carolina on a Sunday, six picketing strikers were killed and more than thirty wounded as gunfire erupted at the Belton mill area. Officers launched an immediate investigation as mill officials postponed opening and workers fled the scene amid chaotic gunfire.
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Honea Tath
S. C. Sunt
Honearth
Csiquota
Belten
L. C. Hammets
Flatcay
Goronce Ray McCoy
Cox
Singer Silenced at Adirondack Camp Visit
CHESTERTOWN N Y A singer visiting friends at their Adirondack camp yawned continuously for a day and required two physicians to reset a dislocated jaw.
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Chestertown, N
Jto Samolivich
Schenectady
Ra’ Viosimecv
Adirondack Mountains
Weather Outlook Tennessee and Virginia Brief
Tennessee sees occasional rain tonight and Friday with cooler in far west tonight and Friday. eastern portions may stay wet into Friday morning. Virginia reports rain tonight and Friday with cooler Friday night and western areas by Friday afternoon. High and low temperatures yesterday and a year ago are listed with a 0.20 inch rain reading and daily shading data at 6:00 pm.
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Tennessee
Weat
Virginia
West
Youth Admits He Killed Two Girls in Ice Box
SAGRAMENTO Calif Sept 6 sixteen year old Deriving Paiva faces murder charges after admitting he criminally attacked his two young sisters and locked them in an ice box to die of suffocation The youths confession came after the funerals of Mary 7 and Mary Ann 6 Deputy Sheriff Charles Ogle filed two murder and incest complaints seeking juvenile court punishment Also included Treasury figures for Sept 5 showing receipts expenditures and gold assets.
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Sagramento
Calif
Paiva
Neil McAllister
Mary 7
Mary Ann
McAllister
Charles Ogle
Munitions Probe to Be Continued in Washington Report
The ab munitions committee, assured by President Roosevelt there will be no interference with its war profit study, proceeds with evidence on American firms’ role in behind the scenes arms deals at Montevideo. Testimony from Electric Boat officials covers whether they aided in coordinating with foreign makers and disseminating ammunition propaganda in Europe amid Latin American tensions. Continued on page six.
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Cecil B. Dickson
Washington
Roosevelt
Montevideo
Avidener Chaiman Nye
Europe
Electric Boat,Company of New York
The
Monte
Psychological Study Of Voters By American Association
Yale University conducted a large psychological study of 8419 voters across 35 states, including 5000 Roosevelt, 3000 Hoover, and 400 Socialist supporters. The analysis, led by Samuel P. Mayes Jr, finds Roosevelt largely reflected voters’ wishes in 1942, with key disagreements on federal expenditures redistributions and liquor policy.
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Howard W. Blakeslee
Associated Press
New York
Roosevelt
American Psychological Association
Samuel P. Mayes, Jr
Mt. Holyoke College
Yale University
Hoover
Aluminum strike ends after 15 hour talks
The Aluminum strike that idle 8 700 workers for a month ended today after a 15 hour conference between union representatives and Aluminum Company officials. The National Council of Aluminum Workers called out August 10 and will return to work tomorrow under terms to be signed at a 10 30 a m conference. Fred Keightly said the settlement was reached but terms withheld. Huey P Long threatened to eject New Orleans city administration if more witnesses were pressured. He noted police arrests of witnesses and said governor could seize control of city government in a special session.
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Mareen Graham
Pittsburgh
America
National Council of Alumi
Aluminum Common Workers
E.D.T
Fred Keightly
Veteran Labor Department
New Orleans
Huey P. Long
New Orleana
Long
Senator Long
Widow of Negro Testifies in Lynching Trial at Manchester
At Manchester Tennessee on September 6 the widow of Dick Wilkerson, a negro tenant farmer lynched earlier, was slated to testify against eight white men charged with his murder. Mattie Wilkerson was to be among the first witnesses as the trial entered its third day. she had testified briefly that her home was torn up by white men seeking her husband and that he was killed, but she did not recount the earlier June confrontation.
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Manchester
Tenn
Dieter Lamb
Mattie Wilkerson
Dick Wilkerson
Wilkerson
Atea
Italy and France Align to Block German Remilitarization
In Bari Italy and France announced an accord to oppose German rearmament and safeguard Austrian independence. They pledged joint action to keep Germany's armaments at Versailles levels, with Italy renouncing rearmament and aligning with France. The agreement dated August 3 and a Danubian aid declaration were noted as agreed topics.
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Bari
Italy
France
Germany
Ttaly
Memphis tobacco tax evaded by Arkansas cigaret depot plan
Memphis in Shelby County faces potential loss of tax revenue as wholesale dealers plan a West Memphis Arkansas depot to supply Memphis smokers by the car ton, avoiding Tennessee four cent per pack tax. The scheme aims to undercut interstate sellers who stamp the taxed cigarets, arguing state law cannot apply to interstate commerce.
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Memphis
Shelby
County
Arkansas
Downie
West Memphis
Ark
Tennessee
Roosevelt and Eastman Confer On Rails Today
President Roosevelt met with Federal Railroad Coordinator Joseph B. Eastman at Hyde Park to discuss railroad policy amid present tensions with J. Pelley of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad. He and Eastman then drove to Bear Mountain State Park. The president also appointed George Akerson to the bipartisan Veterans Appeals Board, a move seen as part of White House personnel shifts following Hoover era officials.
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Hyde Park
N. Y
Roosevelt
Joseph B. Eastman
Federal Railroad
J. ‘J Pelley
New York, New Iavenand Hartford Railroad
Pelley
Eastman
Bear Mountain
Washington
George Akerson
Herbert Hoover
White House
Board of Veterans Appeals
Hoover
Walter Newton
Minnesota
Federal Home Loan Bank Board
Testimony in Dillinger case details alleged attack
A Birmingham jury heard Mrs. Clara Cost testify that Harold Taylor, a 29 year old civil engineer, threatened and beat her before the slaying of Faye New. The witness spoke after objections from attorney Morel Montgomery. Referrals mention grand jury indictments against Louis Piquett and others for harboring Dillinger and his gang.
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Birmingham
Ala
Clara Cost
Harold Taylor
Faye New
Chicago
Federal Grand Jury
Louis Piquett
John Dillinger
Piquett
Dillinger
Arthur D. O'Leary
Homes van Meter
Wilhelm Loeser
Harold Cassidy
United States
Ack
Nazi Labor Camp Declared Prerequisite to Balloting
At Nurnberg Hitler announced Germans must serve in a Nazi labor camp before voting, as youths in brown uniforms gathered with spades in a mass convention display. He said the labor camp experience would define future community membership and that women would be sidelined to sectional meetings.
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Nurnberg
Germany
Adolf Hitler
Zeppelin Meadow
National Socialist Party
Hitler
Textile Strike Toll Rises Amid Picketing Violence
Ten die and many more injured as striking textile workers clash with guards and mill operators. Governor Winant to confer in Washington on a broad shutdown of mills while pickets block plants in New England and the South. Idled workers total 365000 nationwide with 133000 idle in New England and escalating violence report across multiple states.
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Francis J. Gorman
Washington
John G. Winant
New Hampshire
Roosevelt
George A. Sloan
Cotton Textile Institute
New England
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Paterson
N. JL
Ares
South
South Carolina
Blackwood
Victor Monaghan
Greenville
S. C
Inetfertugl
Honea Path
Chiquola
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Radio Eroon
Lansing Brown
Hollywood
Brown
Columbo
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American Assn
Hayes
Fident Roosevelt
H. Long
Alcoa
Aluminum
Mellon
American Federation of Labor
Doom
Will
Cordell Hull
Carton
Bristol
Bristol, Tenn
Daughters of the American Revolution
A. R
Cordell Hall
Clara Cox Epperson
Citizen Week
Hull
Irving Fisher
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Taylor
Havye
Wodds Unuer
Roderick Bedow
Cost
Montgomery
Sloan
Trion
Dighton
Mass
Fall River
Mt. ‘Hope
Riverside
Dan River Cotton Company
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