Border Shooting Heightens Danzig Dispute Tensions
A Polish soldier was shot and killed by a Danzig border guard at Kohling amid a frontier clash. The incident sparks renewed tension as Poland seeks return of Danzig to Germany, with Britain warned against force and Hitler’s aim for a pre-Nuremberg settlement.
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Poland
Danzig
Germany
Kohling
London
London Times
Britain
The
Times
Munich
Berlin
Adolf Hitler
Nuremberg
Great Britain
Reich
Hitler
Berchtesgaden
Karl. Burckhardt
League of Nations
Paris
Orient
Hong Kong
Tientsin
Spurs Hope Another Iron Lung Wedding Is Reported Imminent
A note from the Spurs front signals rising optimism about a second marriage-themed "iron lung" pledge event. Team officials hint the upcoming ceremony aims to match prior publicized success and fan engagement.
Actor Quarrel Looms Over AAAA Reinstatement Decision
New York report says the Associated Actors and Artistes of America faces a climactic vote on reinstating its night club vaudeville circus branch after AFL executive council recommendations. Atlantic City hosted the decision last night, with the final say to go to the AAAA international board today. AFL President William Green led the recommending bodies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
U.P
Associated Actors and Artistes of America
Executive Council
American Federation of Labor
AFL
Atlantic City
N. J
International Board
AAAA
Federation
William Green
May Live Together Still Be Separated
The U S Court of Appeals ruled a married couple may live in the same house for years and still be legally separated. William S Gayhart, a streetcar motorman, sought a divorce on desertion or voluntary separation after seven years of cohabitation with his wife who allegedly never ate with him or prepared meals and hardly spoke to him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
U. S. Court of Appeals
William S. Gayhart
Hillsboro Driver Killed in Truck Collision
Garden Bailey a 26 year old bakery truck driver from West Union died after his truck collided with a coal truck ten miles south of Hillsboro yesterday.
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Hillsboro
U.P
Garden Bailey
West Union
Here
Retail Trade Up One Billion In First Half Of 1939
Secretary Hopkins reported a $1 billion rise in retail trade for the first six months of 1939, totaling $17.9 billion, up 6 percent from 1938. The gains held each month, with the second quarter showing about a 7 percent year over year increase.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
U.P
Harry L. Hopkins
Hopkins
G Men Help Hunt for Galion Bank Bandits
Federal agents from Cleveland aided the Galion holdup investigation at the First Federal Savings and Loan Company. Secretary F. W. Biehl reported a loss of 1642.67 dollars in cash plus a diamond ring and a stickpin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Galion
U.P
Cleveland
First Federal Savings and Loan Company
F. W. Biehl
Roosevelt fixes calendar error in Thanksgiving day mix up
A New York calendar firm thanked President Roosevelt after his proclamation moved Thanksgiving from November 30 to November 23. Printers had misprinted 100,000 calendars with the wrong date and the president’s action made the earlier date the correct one for all calendars nationwide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
U.P
New York
Roosevelt
Oil Strike Shuts 15 Day Output in Four States
Four oil producing states Texas Oklahoma Kansas and New Mexico halted about 58 percent of daily output and demanded restoring a 20 cent crude price cut. They warn of immediate gasoline and motor oil shortages and expect refinery costs to rise nationwide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oklahoma City
Texas
Oklahoma
Kansas
New Mexico
Louisiana
Michigan
Colorado
Arkansas
Model of Land Plane Sold to Jap Air Line
The only DC-4 42 passenger land plane thus far built is sold to a Japanese carrier. Douglas Aircraft said Japan Air Transport made a substantial down payment on 715000 dollars for the ship and drawings for reassembly in Japan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jap Air Line
Santa ® Monica
Calif
Douglas Aircraft
Japan Air Transport, Inc
Japan
Town Support Keeps Alfred Holbrook College Campus in Manchester
Townspeople pledged financial and moral backing for Alfred Holbrook College to keep its Manchester campus for the coming term. President H. E. Canning announced the new term opens Sept. 5 after earlier plans to move the campus to Portsmouth.
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Manchester
Minister Rev. T. M. Ricketts Dies at 87 in Ashville
Rev. T M Ricketts an Ohio Conference Methodist Episcopal Church minister for over 40 years died at his Ashville home aged 87. He graduated from Ohio University at Athens in 1881.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
U.P
T. M. Ricketts
Ohio Conference
The
Methodist Episcopal Church
Ashville
Ohio University At
Athens
Hold Nurse in Mercy Slaying
In Allentown Pennsylvania a 77 year old retired nurse Miss Margaret L. Cowan was held in Lehigh County Prison for the mercy slaying of her sister Mrs Louella Sager a 66 year old mental patient at Allentown State Hospital. Two nurses witnessed the incident through a glass partition as Cowan shot her sister twice in the chest then placed a bouquet in the victim s hand.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Allentown
U.P
Lehigh County
Allentown State Hospital
Margaret L. Cowan
Quakertown
Charles M. Schwab
George Westinghouse
Louella Sager
Spinnerstown
Bucks County
Miss Cowan
Mrs. Sager
Ohio WPA Wage Scales Compare Old and New
Ohio announces a master schedule of revised WPA monthly earnings for seven largest cities, showing old and new scales by labor class. Wages vary by indoor unskilled B outdoor unskilled A intermediate skilled and professional, with adjustments tied to county population, referencing 1930 city size for the largest county city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
U.P
Ohio
West Virginia
Dies Committee Resumes Probe of Bund in U.S.
Washington reports Fritz Kuhn leader of the German-American Bund testifies as Dies committee resumes hearings on Nazi and Fascist groups in the United States. Kuhn claims Bund membership around 20 000 with sympathizer group larger. He cites dues and a questioned flow of receipts to headquarters.
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Dies Committee
U. S
Washington
Fritz Kuhn
Bund
Kuhn
United States
J. Parnell Thomas
N. J
H. Jerry Voorhis
Cal
Dies
Pomona
Labor Board Decision May Cause Battle
The National Labor Relations Board ruled Bethlehem Steel violated the Wagner Act, ordering disestablishment of a 21 year old employee representation plan. The 78 page decision targets Bethlehem plants in Lackawanna New York Sparrows Point Maryland Johnstown Lebanon Bethlehem Rankin Leetsdale and Steelton Pennsylvania with implications for west coast mills. The CIO backed ruling reflects the 1937 Bethlehem steel workers’ organizing drive.
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Washington
U.P
National Labor Relations Board
Bethlehem Steel Company
Supreme Court
Circuit Court of Appeals
U. S. Supreme Court
NLRB
Bethlehem
Lackawanna
N. Y
Sparrows Point
Johnstown
Lebanon
Rankin, Leersdale
Steelton
Pennsylvania
West Coast
Pacific Coast Mills
Labor Board
Steel Workers’ Organizing Committee
CIO
Little Steel
Complaints Dismissed By Coal Commission
The Bitu minous Coal Division of the Interior Department dismissed complaints by district producers' boards against three Ohio mine operators and a Cleveland firm in West Virginia. The charges claimed failure to pay administration assessments for coal codes. Officials said dismissal followed payment of the assessments.
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Washington
Interior Department
Ohio
Cleveland
West Virginia
Health Department Reorganization Law Takes Effect
In Columbus the new health law reorganizes the State Health Department and sets a direct five year tenure for its top official, taking effect today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
U.P
State Health Department
New Thanksgiving Date Sparks Praise and Protests Nationwide
Retail groups praised President Roosevelt for moving Thanksgiving to November 23 to boost Christmas shopping. New England governors of Maine New Hampshire and Vermont rejected the change and vowed to keep the traditional November 30 observance. Plymouth leaders insisted their town would celebrate on the usual last Thursday, despite the national shift.
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Roosevelt
New England
Providence
New World
Maine
New Hampshire
Vermont
Lincoln
Leverett Saltonstall
Massachusetts
Martin L. Davey
Ohio
Buffalo
N. Y
National Retail Drygoods Association
Harry L. Hopkins
Plymouth
Mass
Studies Text Books Before Electrocution
Adrian Miller, 31, former engineering student, spent hours studying chemistry, engineering, and philosophy before his execution at Indiana State Prison. He was electrocuted at 12 11 a m for the murder of 18 year old Alice May Girton in Fort Wayne on May 6. He declined clemency.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Michigan City
Ind
Adrian Miller
Indiana State Prison
Alice May Girton
Fort Wayne
Texas Editor Wins Rural Writer Prize
H. B. Fox, 28, editor and owner of The Madisonville Meteor in Texas, will receive 500 dollars and a free trip to New York as the best rural newspaper writer of 1939, County Home Magazine announced. Four thousand six hundred entrants competed in the annual contest for rural journalists. Carl Drumm of The Kenton News in Ohio won 250 dollars for best country correspondence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
U.P
H. B. Fox
Madisonville
Tex
Meteor
County Home Magazine
Carl Drumm
Kenton
Ohio
United States Moves to Electric Monopoly in Tennessee
The U S government becomes virtually sole electricity producer and wholesaler in Tennessee as checks totaling over 79 million dollars are handed to Wendell L Willkie president of the Commonwealth and Southern Corporation, marking a major scale up in public power distribution.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
United States
Tennessee
Wendell L. Willkie
Commonwealth and Southern Corporation
WPA wage revisions raise southern relief pay while cutting eastern rates
The Works Progress Administration issued a revised $1.477 billion relief wage schedule effective Sept 1, boosting southern and western wages while lowering eastern rates. Unskilled pay rose from $26 to $31.20 in rural areas and to $46.80 in large southern cities, with substantial regional shifts and the elimination of the 10 percent local-differential.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Works Progress Administration
WPA
David Lasser
The
Workers Alliance
Congress
South
Philadelphia
Pittsburgh
Columbus
Toledo
Akron
Cleveland
Milwaukee
Detroit
Boston
New York
Buffalo
N. Y
Worcester
Mass
Rochester
Motives for Train Wreck Undiscovered
Reno dispatch reports investigators have not found a motive for the City of San Francisco wreck. Federal agents in California Nevada and Utah probe along the Overland route and question hundreds of itinerants after a bridge collapse on the Humbol dt River that killed 23.
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San Francisco
Nevada
Thelma Risvedt
E. A. Betts
Penn State
Reno
Nev
U.P
Southern Pacific Railroad
Humboldt River
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Western
California
Utah
Premature Quadruplets Fight for Survival in Illinois
In Kankakee Illinois Virgil Deschand prays doctors can save three survivors of quadruplets born two months early at a private maternity hospital. The first infant, a girl, arrived at 8 p.m. followed by a girl and a boy within half an hour. the last boy died an hour and a half after birth and another girl was listed with slim hopes of living.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kankakee
U.P
Virgil Deschand
Myrna
Roosevelt appeals for peace in labor movement
President Roosevelt urged peace in the labor movement in a public letter to the state federation of labor. The call follows AFL leader William Green accusing John L. Lewis of vetoing negotiations for peace between rival unions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
U.P
Roosevelt
Labor Movement
State Federation of Labor Today
William Green
AFL
John L. Lewis
Congress For Industrial Organizations
7 000 In Line For 600 Jobs
About 7,000 unemployed people gathered near Municipal Stadium in Cleveland awaiting registration for 200 to 600 city jobs across 25 classifications. Most waited hours without food, some bringing sandwiches, as the civil service positions followed a charter amendment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
Civil Service
Property Owner Gets Conscience Payment
PORTSMOUTH ULP The second conscience installment of 100 dollars to pay for property damage was received today by Mrs. Tillie Boyer a Portsmouth real estate holder. Months ago she received another 100 dollars in cash from a man who telephoned remorse over setting fire to her property. Both payments were sent by special delivery through the Portsmouth post office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Portsmouth
ULP
Tillie Boyer
American Prisoners In Spain Are Freed
Aviator Harold Dahl and 19 other Americans held by Spanish Nationalists since the civil war arrived at San Sebastian near the border at night and were expected to cross into France today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hendaye
Harold Dahl
San Sebastian
France
Ohio State board to discuss new president
The Ohio State University board of trustees, finishing their regular meeting at Gibraltar Island, planned to discuss selecting a new university president.
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Spurs Hope
Chicago
Fred Snite
Dorothy Dublin
Top
Big Spring
el Paso Hospital
Horace Garrett
Galion Bank
Free City
East Prussia
Holbrook
Unskill
Tad
Inter- Prof. & Mediate
Wwe We Wee
Voorhis
Thomas
Coal Commission
Rural Writer
East
Appeals For Peace
Spain
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