Wrecked Train Sparks Nevada Wide Investigation
Transients across Nevada were questioned as officials pursue sabotage leads after a fatal train wreck near Humboldt River. Victims include Mrs Henry Pepper Vaux and her daughter Susan of Rosemont Pennsylvania and Henry Speck, 35, dining car cook. A spike puller and dropped crowbar are cited as clues.
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Elko
Henry Pepper Vaux
Rosemont
Susan
Henry Speck
Sparks
Pyramid Lake
Humboldt River
Carlin
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Nevada Town
Officials Discuss Oil Shutdown Across Mid-Continent
In Oklahoma City delegates from Kansas Louisiana Arkansas Texas Colorado Michigan New Mexico Illinois meet the Interstate Oil Compact Commission to study a possible crude production shutdown to pressure refiners. A majority of governors and producers aimed to back Texas’ earlier action shutting 87 000 wells to boost prices.
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Oklahoma City
OUP
Interstate Oil Compact Commission
Texas
Kansas
Louisiana
Arkansas
Colorado
Michigan
New Mexico
Illinois
Portland Police Seek Cleveland Suspect in Cleveland Murder
Portland police said Cleveland officers would arrive today to take custody of Lafayette Sullins, 31, a Black man wanted in Cleveland for the murder of Robert Taylor, also a Black man.
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Portland
Ore
U.P
Cleveland
Lafayette Sullins
Robert Taylor
Janet Gaynor and Gilbert Adrian Honeymoon in Mexico
Actress Janet Gaynor and designer Gilbert Adrian, long admired as Hollywood fashion leaders, eloped from Hollywood to Yuma and married yesterday. They are now traveling by train to Mexico City for their honeymoon after a brief wedding in Arizona.
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Hollywood
U.P
Janet Gaynor
Gilbert Adrian
Miss Gaynor
Mexico
Yuma
Ariz
Mexico City
Omaha Witch Suspect Expelled Over Flesh Melting Claim
Alfio Laferla of the Societa Risveglio Americano says an Italian colony witch was expelled by his auxiliary after accusing her and her husband of burying a bone with meat beneath Mrs Grazia Trino's window to make her flesh melt. Trino, who suffered a stroke, testified she felt her flesh being eaten by a mysterious power.
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Omaha
Neb
U.P
Italy
Alfio Laferla
Societta Risveglio- Americano
Grazia Trino
Laferla
Two Student Pilots Crash with One Dead Over Ohio River
Merne C. Bowers aged 23 died when his airplane fell into the Ohio River during a mid air collision. Robert L. Craft aged 37 from Wheeling escaped with minor injuries after a forced pasture landing near Belpre Ohio during tests for private pilot licenses.
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Ohio River
Merne C. Bowers
Robert L. Craft
Wheeling
W. Va
Belpre
Ohio
Bowers
Craft
E. A. Goff
Pittsburgh
Civil Aeronautics Authority
Building Contracts Rise 31 Percent in First Half 1939
Secretary of Commerce Harry Hopkins reported that total construction contracts awarded in the first half of 1939 increased by 31 percent compared with the same period in 1938. The gains reflect higher activity in many sectors and indicate a growing pace for public and private projects.
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Washington
U.P
Harry Hopkins
Roosevelt shifts Thanksgiving date to November 23
The President announced Thanksgiving would be observed on November 23 this year, with 1940 moving to the second Thursday in November. Ohio Governor Bricker said Ohio would conform, while others feared disruptions to turkey farming, Christmas planning, and football schedules. Calendar makers warned of large production and sales impacts as calendars for 1940 were already in progress.
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United Press
Roosevelt
Columbus
U.2
John W. Bricker
Ohio
Brictter
New England
Campobello
N. B
Rhode Island
Ohio Division of Markets
W. Dale Hilbish
Bill Ackerman
University of California At Los Angeles
Seattle
Wash
Frederick E. Baker
H. G. Brace Calendar Co
Ohio State Trustees Move To Halt Red Activities
Ohio State University trustees adopted a policy of strict supervision for student groups and banned the Marxist Club on campus. A 9 000 word report found few students with Un American leanings and blamed limited faculty oversight for some groups while clearing faculty of propaganda charges.
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Ohio State Trustees
Put-In-Bay
Ohio State University
Marxist Club
Trustees
Red’’ Committee
American Legion
Dairy Farmers Strike in New York Over Milk Prices
Utica New York United Press reports the Dairy Farmers Union enforces a strike against shipments to New York City demanding 2.35 per hundredweight for fluid milk in Aug Sep Oct, alleging a milk trust keeps prices low. The action affects 15 000 producers in New York Vermont and Pennsylvania milk sheds supplying the metro area.
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Utica
N. Y
Dairy Farmers’ Union
New York City
Milk Trust
Congress of Industrial Organizations
General Organization Committee
Upper
New York
Vermont
Pennsylvania
Golf socialite hopes death will teach patience
Willow Grove Pennsylvania James B. MacFarland the third an upper crust golfer said he hopes his deadly outburst at Huntington Valley Country Club will be a lesson to others. He struck caddy John Klemming after an approach shot in a sixsome incident the caddy died from a skull fracture. MacFarland visited the family who reportedly understand the tragedy.
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Willow Grove
James B. MacFarland
MacFarland
Huntington Valley Country Club
John Klemming
Daily Double Payoff Seen As Mountain Size Win
ANNA Illinois Claude Elkins pool room owner claimed his $10,772 daily double payoff at Washington Park was large enough to picture as a mountain. The 40 year old began betting two years ago and had not attended a race since then.
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Anna
Claude Elkins
Washington Park
the Park
Bank Messenger Robbed of 70000 in Long Beach
Five men held up a bank messenger and floor man near Long Beach New York as they carried funds to a post office. The bandits seized about 70000 and threatened a policeman with a machine gun, taking his revolver.
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Long Beach
N. Y
U.P
W National City Bank of
Washington
Roosevelt
North Atlantic
U. S. S. Tuscaloosa
New York
Bricker Says No Hatch Bill Needed in Ohio
Governor Bricker rejects calls for a Hatch Bill to bar state employees from political activity. In a letter to Rep. Otto Bartunek he affirms no such law is required and states public service should be the core of politics.
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Columbus
U.P
Bricker
Ohio
Otto J. Bartunek
Cleveland
Bartunek
FBI to Probe Miami Crime and Politics
The FBI plans a thorough inquiry into crime and political conditions in Miami. Director J Edgar Hoover set groundwork during a Miami visit and intends a campaign similar to actions in Kansas City and Louisiana to move into the city.
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Washington
U.P
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Miami
FBI
J. Edgar Hoover
Hoover
Kansas City
Louisiana
Capital Defenders Forced To Give Ground Near Manassas
National Guardsmen retreated as 6,000 invading Regular Army troops pushed toward Washington from Manassas Virginia. Guardsmen, though outnumbered, pledged to regain ground amid modern warfare advantage.
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Manassas
U.P
National
Washington
Sister’s death shocks Nevada woman in Elida loss
Mrs. Sarah Stemen, 47, of Nevada, learned her sister Mrs. Margaret Stemen of Elida had died today and collapsed from a heart attack.
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Bucyrus
Sarah Stemen
Nevada
Margaret Stemen
Elida
Court Costs Less Than Parking Lot
Washington report notes Miss Constance Kiehel an economic analyst for the social security board proposes paying fines for parking in prohibited downtown spots. Police records show her fines total $66 on 22 tickets over several years.
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Washington
Constance Kiehel
Conservation Course To Be Taught In State Schools
Columbus Ohio AP reports E Fink of Zanesville was appointed by State Education Director E N Dietrich to develop a conservation curriculum for state schools. Fink, whose salary is not fixed, is expected to earn about 3000 dollars annually after success in creating a Zanesville program. He will aim to have the course patterned for final approval by the state conservation division and the department of education.
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Columbus
U.P
E. Fink
Zanesville
E. N. Dietrich
Fink
State Conservation Division
Department of Education
Aherne and Fontaine Engagement Revealed
The engagement of screen actor Brian Aherne and actress Joan Fontaine, sister of Olivia de Havilland, was announced today.
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Hollywood
U.P
Brian Aherne
Joan Fontaine
Olivia de Havilland
Barkley Predicts Short 1940 Congress Amid Election Push
Senate leader Alben W. Barkley said the 1940 session would be brief and heavily political as Congress tackles neutrality policy before possible conflicts abroad. He urged prompt action on the President's lending program and housing bill and noted campaigning would influence the pace.
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Washington
U.P
Senate
Alben W. Barkley
Congress
Roosevelt
United States
Barkley
Farm Bureau Field Supervisors on Tour
Five Ohio Farm Bureau field supervisors will depart New York on August 19 for a tour of Nova Scotia cooperatives. The trip is organized by the Cooperative League of the U S A and St. Francis Xavier University Antigonish Nova Scotia extension department.
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Columbus
U.P
Ohio Farm Bureau
New York
Nova Scotia
Cooperative League of the U
Ill Lie-Down Quakers Evicted in Town Riot
In Mantua New Jersey a three member Quaker family facing eviction after tax-default were forcibly removed as 300 residents rioted. An 83 year old grandmother and a 28 year old paralytic grandson were carried out on stretchers to hospitals, while the daughter with a heart condition exited the home. State police and constables dispersed the mob after firemen threatened to intervene.
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Mantua
N. J
U.P
Agnes Evans
Custis
Leonard Eckman
Mary Scott
Pope Pius XII Seen Promoting Four Power Peace Plan
Reports say Pope Pius XII backed a four power peace conference with Britain France Germany and Italy to resolve the Danzig dispute. Burckhardt, League of Nations commissioner for Danzig, met Hitler in Berchtesgaden and may have been sent to pave the way for talks.
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Fuehrer
Adolf Hitler
Berchtesgaden
Karl. Burchardt
Danzig
League of Nations
Pope Pius XII
Britain
France
Germany
Italy
Benito Mussolini
Burckhardt
London
Poland
Foreign Office
Berchteskaden
Duce
Turkey
Orient
Frances Mary Richard
San Francisco
State Department
Washington
London Daily Mail
Europe
Mussolini
Hitler
League
Welles Urges Mexican Oil Dispute Settlement
The United States government pressed Mexico and American oil firms over expropriated properties to secure a prompt and satisfactory settlement. Acting Secretary of State Sumner Welles notified both sides that the dispute endangers friendly commercial and diplomatic relations between the two nations.
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Washington
AUP
United States
Mexico
Sumner Welles
Woman paroled from Marysville ends life in Michigan
Mrs. Susan Jories, 52, of Mt. Vernon Ohio, was found dead at Driskell Lake near Jones Michigan. Notes indicate she planned suicide. She had been paroled Aug. 3 from the Marysville Reformatory after a three year sentence for killing her husband.
School Official Arthur Ferguson Dead After Poisoning
Arthur L. Ferguson former superintendent of schools at West Elkton died of poisoning Monday following a double attempt on his life.
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Hamilton
Arthur L. Ferguson
West Elkton
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