European Diplomats Stirred by Roosevelt Pledge To Aid Canada
The 1938 model of American foreign policy stood out boldly today amid global turmoil. Roosevelt pledged to oppose foreign designs on Canada, drawing warm approval in Britain and France, while German and Italian papers offered mixed reactions. The move signals a shift away from strict isolation as democracies face escalating tensions. Britain and France press to ease war threats in Europe while U S policy remains cautious about Monroe Doctrine expansion. Elsewhere in world trouble fronts, China and Japan clash along the Yangtse, and Arabs clash with British troops in Palestine. Spain reports Loyalists slowing the rebel push near Almaden mines, and Britain protests the Vienna arrest of Captain Kendrick.
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Roosevelt
United States
Canada
Great Britain
France
Italy
Tagelbatt
America
Mea
Viscount Runciman
Prague
Konrad Henlein
Milan Hodza
China
Yangtse
Hankow
Palestine
Holy Land
Spain
Britain
Germany
Thomas J. Kendrick
Vienna
Alliance Judge Faces Chinese Puzzle In Minor Trade Suit
Municipal Judge Harry E. Moreland judged a case brought by Limin Kung a native of Tientsin China and former Mt. Union College student. Kung seeks 250 dollars claiming the value of an automobile traded while he was a minor. He was born July 15 1918. Chinese age rules would count him as 21.
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Alliance
U.P
Harry E. Moreland
Limin Kung
Mt. Union College
Tientsin
China
Allance
Kung
We Can't Even Pronounce It Waterfalls Feature
The Iguazu falls in South America are two and a half times wider than Niagara and twice as high, changing the view on the world’s tallest cascades. The piece notes Niagara’s fame for thrill rides and urges readers to check today’s Messenger Want Ad page for used cars and ads with a 3 pm deadline.
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Iguazu
Argentina
Brazil
Niagara Falls
Niagara
Messenger
Cut In Age Pension Checks Threatened
Ohio faces a likely cut in monthly pensions for about 110000 elderly recipients before year end unless liquor revenue improves. State Finance Director M Ray Allison said the issue is whether to borrow 400000 to pay August pensions at the current rate or implement a reduction this month. A decision will come after a conference with Old Age Pension Chief H J Berrodin and State Auditor Joseph Ferguson.
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Columbus
Ohio
M. Ray Allison
Allison
H. J. Berrodin
Joseph Ferguson
General Revenue Fund
Parishioners Block Transfer of Popular Michigan Priest
Two hundred St Bar bara s parishioners in Vulcan Michigan patrolled the rectory and picketed the church to block the transfer of Rev Simon Borkowski known as Father Simon. They say they oppose the move and would use force if needed to keep him from reporting to Salvatosian Seminary at St Nazianz Wisconsin.
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Wis
Officials Aided Bridges Hearings Move West
Chairman Martin Dies announces that Harry Bridges Pacific Coast director of the CIO may be subpoenaed to testify about alleged aid from government officials during deportation proceedings. The House committee plans West Coast hearings after completing work in Washington. Edward Sullivan accuses a Labor Department official of guiding Bridges amid the deportation case.
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Washington
U.P
Martin Dies
Tex
House
Harry Bridges
Pacific Coast
Committee For Industrial Organization
West
Bridges
Dies
Edward F. Sullivan
Labor Department
Eighteen Die as Barcelona Is Bombed Three Times
Barcelona suffers its worst bombardment in two months as Nationalist air raids kill eighteen and wound many more. Civilians flee into the city tunnels, reducing casualties with a makeshift underground refuge.
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Barcelona
U.P
Three Die in Reich on High Treason Charge
Berlin report says Karl Wiehoff of Westfalia Peter Heimz of Trier and Wilhelm Braun of Duerkheim were executed for high treason. The total executions for treason since January reach 22.
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Reich
Berlin
U.P
Karl Wiehoff
Westfalia
Peter Heimz
Trier
Wilhelm Braun
Duerkheim
Mad Butcher Elusive Despite Close Clues in Cleveland
Police pursued tantalizing clues in the Kingsbury Run case as two recent victims lacked their usual heads. Dentists were asked to compare two silver crowns and a metal pivot found in a victim's mouth, a needle-in-a-haystack search. Fire squads burned shacks housing about 60 tramps, while Eliot Ness aimed to clear the tramp jungle to remove the butcher’s human bait.
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Cleveland
Kingsbury Run
Cuyahoga River
Eliot Ness
Minister Gets Life Sentence for Poison Murder
Rev Helo Janssen, 51, an Evangelical Lutheran minister, was given a life term in the North Dakota state penitentiary after confessing to the poison murder of Alma Kruckenberg, 16, his housemaid. He pleaded guilty at midnight, admitted killing her on August 15 with poisoned wine, and a post mortem showed she was pregnant.
Third Wedding Venture Result of Persistence
In Cleveland Gustave Russe a 55 year old street car conductor and his 48 year old wife Helen, twice divorced, decided to marry again citing his persistence. She said his courting time in Salem Ohio made the earlier proposals pale by comparison as she finally accepted to spare him from wearing himself out.
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Cleveland
Gustave Russe
Helen
Englishman Hits 300 Miles Per Hour in Test
English racing driver John Cobb pushed his turtle shaped racer toward 300 miles per hour at Bonneville Salt Flats in a second preliminary test before attempting the land speed record. His countryman Captain George E T Eyton holds 312.2 mph. Cobb canceled a return run after finding a vacuumed in fuselage at high speed.
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Bonneville Salt Flats
Utah
U.P
John Cobb
George E. T. Eyston
Cobb
Three ill from hospital cream pie food poisoning
Three persons in a Cleveland hospital were stricken ill by food poisoning after eating a cream pie. The incident prompted medical staff to investigate the pie as the likely source of contamination.
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Cleveland
Au.p
Four Entombed Miners Are Rescued Unharmed
SCRANTON Pa Four anthracite miners entombed for nine hours hundreds of feet below the earths surface were rescued alive and unharmed. The men were on a coal car pulled up a slope when the cable broke causing a rock slide that sealed them behind a dirt wall. Rescuers driven pipe through the debris reached the men who shouted to take their time as air remained good. The four survivors were Joseph Chikosky Clement Phillips James Basham and Charled Mosel with only bruises and no serious injuries.
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Scranton
U.P
Joseph Chikosky
Clement Phillips
James Basham
Charled Mosel
Red scare hearing features Mason Kerr in Dies panel
Rep Noah Mason of Illinois and Margaret A Kerr of the Los Angeles Better America League led the Dies committee hearing on Red charges in Washington. Mason accused eight government officials of Communistic activity while Kerr, promoted as a mystery witness, testified as part of the case over alleged protection of C I O leader Harry Bridges from deportation proceedings.
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Noah Mason
R. Ill
Margaret A. Kerr
Los Angeles
Better America League
Dies Committee
Washington
Mason
Miss Kerr
Harry Bridges
Guardsmen Withdraw From Newton After Strike Turmoil
National Guardsmen prepared to withdraw from Newton Iowa under Gov Kraschel order ending martial law proclaimed July 20 amid the Maytag strike. The plant reopened August 4 under military protection with union members returning to work but protesting a 10 percent wage cut that started the dispute.
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Newton
U.P
Nelson G Kraschel
Maytag
Appointed Dean of Men at Capital University
Burl Price, formerly on the faculty at West Liberty Teachers College, was named dean of men at Capital University in Columbus Ohio. Price brings experience from West Liberty to the Capital leadership role.
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Columbus
U.P) Co
Burl Price
West Liberty
W. Va
Teachers’ College
Capital University
Injuries Prove Fatal In Delaware Auto Collision
Lilburn Hobson aged 60 of Mt. Gilead died from injuries after his car crashed with a state highway department road drag today. The report cites a fatal collision with a government vehicle as the cause of death.
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Delaware
U.P
State Highway Department
Lilburn Hobson
Mt. Gilead
Purge controversy and recount in probate race
A recount affirmed Democratic nominee Judge Louis Tyroler as Athens County Probate Judge, with minor changes across four precincts. Tyroler leads 2,137 to 2,116 over Harry Mettler, who was represented by Emmett Keenan during the four-precinct recheck requested by Mettler. Tyroler remains the party standard-bearer against Republican Francis White in Nelsonville. Separately in New York, Representative John J. O'Connor denounces the presidents purge as a step toward dictatorship, urging public support for democracy in a Columbia Radio Network address. Senator Millard E. Tydings signals a counterattack, planning to respond to the purge challenge in coming speeches.
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Louis Tyroler
Athens County
Board of Elections
Harry Mettler
Tyroler
Mettler
Nelsonville
Emmett Keenan
Turoler
Jacksonville
Sugar Creek
Francis White
New York
U.P
John J. O'Connor
Congress
Roosevelt
Columbia Radio
United States
America
Tydings
Millard E. Tydings
Salisbury
Maryland
White House
Baltimore
Walter F. George
John O'Connor
N. Y
House Rules Committee
Eastern Shore
Mother backs Lamance son as doctor pleads innocence
LINNEUS Mo. A mother, Mrs Lora Lamance of Manitou Colorado, asserts her son Dr W F Lamance is innocent of killing his wife and says her faith in God sustains her. She recalls his words to her that he fears nothing and that truth will prevail.
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Linneus
U.P
Lora Lamance
W. F. Lamance
Laclede
Denial of Athens Highway Office Job Cut Rumors
Officials denied rumors of 100 layoffs at the Athens office of the State Highway Department noting only about 20 temporary removals due to a exhausted budget. The county road crews total about 100, with the reduction not expected to last more than two or three days. Rehiring is anticipated to protect the WPA Hollister Murray City road project and all workers are equipment operators.
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Athens
State Highway Department
WPA
Hollister-Murray City
AFL Plans Review of Wagner Act Problem at Atlantic City
President William Green said the AFL executive council will review the entire Wagner Act issue at its Atlantic City meeting next week. He declined to comment on reports that AFL attorneys are drafting amendments to the labor relations law, possibly creating an independent tribunal to assume NLRB judicial duties.
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Washington
U.P
William Green
American Federation of Labor
Atlantic City
Green
AFL
NLRB
ousted Yale professor heads teachers group
Dr. Jerome Davis, recently ousted Yale professor, is to begin a third term as president of the American Federation of Teachers at the convention's close in Cedar Point. Delegates adopted resolutions urging AFL and CIO to settle their differences. In Setauket, Thomas K Heath dies at 85, famed minstrel comedian linked to kerosene lamp era, one year after partner James Melntyre.
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Cedar Point
U.P
Jerome Davis
Yale University
American Federation of Teachers
American Federation of Labor
Committee For Industrial Organization
Setauket
N. Y
Thomas K. Heath
James MelIntyre
Boy Killed Under Wagon on Farm in Portsmouth
Donald F E Harris nine died here today from injuries after a boy fell beneath a wagon on his father’s farm. Local authorities reported the accident occurred on the family property with no further details available.
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Portsmouth
Donald FE. Harris
Dayton Democrat Named to Committee Chairmanship
Dayton political figures move toward leadership roles as A. Horstman of Dayton is slated to become chairman of the Central Committee replacing Ear l Hanefeld. J. Fuller Trump of Springfield will serve as vice chair, and Marie M. Dickson of Steubenville is set for re election as secretary. Campaign finance details from the Sawyer for Governor and Davey for Governor efforts accompany the update.
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Columbus
A. Horstman
Dayton
Democratic State Central Committee
Central Committee
Ear! H
Hanefeld
Ottawa
J. Fuller Trump
Springfield
Reorganized Committee
Marie M. Dickson
Steubenville
Arthur L. Limbach
New Philadelphia
Francis Poulson
State Executive Committee
New York
Charles Sawyer
Amagansett
Long Island
Sawyer
Secretary of State
Thief Steals Display at Crime Experts Meeting
A thief at the International Association for Identification convention in Columbus stole part of a crime prevention display from the hotel where criminologists were in session. The incident occurred while experts gathered for the annual meeting.
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Columbus
International Association For Identification
Italian High Officers To Investigate Plane Crash
Rome reports two senior air force officers opened an inquiry into a Macchi Celere 94 crash at Varese near Milan. Thirteen people died when the civil plane owned by Macci Co. of Varese crashed about fifteen minutes after takeoff.
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Rome
U.P
Varese
Milan
Macci Co
Registration of Ohio relief clients under oath begins
Ohio starts compulsory re registration of about one hundred thousand direct relief clients. Chief relief examiner O P Van Scheik says the oath based re registration will cut the relief load by 15 to 20 percent and will be repeated quarterly. Thousands have not appeared to file new affidavits. The program runs until September 1 and will recur every three months with a new form asking if financial status changed.
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Ohio
Columbus
O. P. van Scheik
State Auditor's Office
van Scheik
van Schoik
Criminal's Wife Serves Term for Aiding Mate
Barbara Bird, 20 year old expectant mother, was sentenced to 30 days for aiding her husband Charles Bird in his criminal acts. Bird, public enemy No. 1, received 45 and a half years in prison after pleading guilty to seven robbery charges.
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Baltimore
Barbara Bird
Charles Bird
Public Enemy
Bird
Mexican Sings as He Dies in Electric Chair
In Huntsville Texas Jesse Polanco a Mexican from San Antonio who killed a bus driver during a holdup sang a song as he was strapped to the electric chair at the state penitentiary He died minutes after fellow inmate Collan H Morgan of El Paso had been executed for murdering his wife The two executions were carried out in succession at the state prison
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Huntsville
Tex
Jesse Polanco
San Antonio
State Penitentiary
Collan H. Morgan
el Paso
Ohio sales tax drop in early 1938 seven months
Ohio sales tax collections for the first seven months of 1938 fell 26.89 percent from the same period in 1937. Treasurer Clarence H. Kinsley reported comparative totals of 20,727,373 this year and 28,563,654 last year. Counties with less than a 20 percent drop included Gallia, Hocking, and Meigs.
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Columbus
U.P
Ohio
Clarence H. Kinsley
Gallia
Hocking
Meigs
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Higgins
Okla
Will Rogers
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Time
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E. G. Seibel
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Mildred Jaster
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