Witness in oil probe commits suicide in New Orleans
Federal grand jury indicts seven men on mail fraud charges in a $5.5 million levee board refunding deal. Dr J A Shaw, led the hot oil inquiry, shoots himself at his New Orleans home after a car crash and intense pressure from the probe. Local LSU figures, including James Monroe Smith, face embezzlement and tax charges.
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New Orleans
J. A. Shaw
James Monroe Smith
Louisiana State University
Abraham L. Shushan
Huey Long
Orleans
H. W. Wayuespack
Henry J. Miller
Robert Newman
Newman and Harris & Co
Norvin Trent Harris
Investment House
Clarence Lorio
Baton Rouge
LSU
Capital Electric Works
Shaw
Dallas
Louisiana
George Heidelberg
Smith
Rogge
U. S
O. John Rogge
Leche
Weiss
Freeman W. Burford
Texas
Pacific Coast Forest Fires Reach Toward Control
Forest fires across the Pacific Coast from Canada to Mexico were nearing containment. In Oregon the lumber town of Pineridge burned with most buildings razed, suspected arson. Portland remained shrouded by smoke as crews of over 1,000 fought blazes on Mt Hood Tillamook and Estacada.
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Portland
Ore
O.R
Pacific
Canada
Mexico
Pineridge
California
Mt. Hood
Tillamook
Estacada
Sisyiyou National Forest
Oregon
34 Are Injured as Bus Collides With Fire Engine
A Greyhound bus traveling from New York to Washington collided with a Philadelphia fire engine. Thirty four people were injured, four seriously. The seriously hurt include bus driver Walter Migala, 32, from Camden, and firefighters John Hobson, 56, Martin Gredenan, 40, and Joseph Dreyn, 47, all of Philadelphia.
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Philadelphia
U.P
Greyhound
New York
Washington
Walter Migala
Camden
N. J
John Hobson
Martin Gredenan
Joseph Dreyn
Ohio tavern brawl leaves Hubbard farmer dead
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio. Trumbull County authorities hold tavern proprietor Sam Ottieri in connection with the death of 50 year old Hubbard farmer George Rieseman who was fatally shot during a tavern brawl.
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Youngstown
U.P
Trumbull
Sam Ottieri
Hubbard
George Rieseman
Eagles elect Chioan Chicago grand worthy president
The Fraternal Order of Eagles concluded its 41st annual grand aerie convention electing John A. Abel of Marion Ohio to succeed Dr. Fred C. Dilley of Brazil Indiana as grand worthy president.
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Eagles Elect
Chioan
Chicago
U.P
Order of Eagles
John A. Abel
Marion
Fred C. Dilley
Brazil
Ind
Sub Salvagers Near Success In Squalus Lift Work
Hope that the ill fated Squalus with 26 dead rests in Portsmouth Harbor N H grows as a white foam patch signals the submarine has been floated clear of mud pinacle. A second lift took the vessel to 90 feet and moved it forward five miles within two weeks.
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Portsmouth Harbor
N. H
Japan Considers Action If U S Armaments Embargo Imposed
Tokyo reports say the foreign office drafts a retaliatory policy against American interests in China if the United States blocks weapons to Japan. Japan may denounce the nine power treaty and tighten pressure on Britain over currency support in Manchuria and silver bullion held in the British concession at Tianjin.
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Tokyo
Foreign Office
United States
China
Japan
America
Asahi
Great Britain
Britain
Tientsin
British
Hong Kong
Lence
Larger Airmail Feeder System Is Advocated
Richard C. DuPont of All-American Aviation urged the Post Office Department and the Civil Aeronautics Authority to create a nationwide airline feeder system. His firm, now aided on an experimental basis, serves 58 cities over 1,540 miles across Ohio and West Virginia routes with pickups at Marietta Pomeroy Gallipolis Huntington and Chesapeake Ohio.
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Washington
A.P
Richard C. DuPont
Wilmington
Del
All-American Aviation, Inc
Ohio
West Virginia
Pennsylvania
Post Office Department
Civil Aeronautics Authority
DuPont
Marietta
Pomeroy
Gallipolis
Huntington
W. Va
Chesapeake
Six Crown as Boat Capsizes
Six bodies washed ashore near Rye Beach New Hampshire after a Sunday deep sea fishing trip from Dover Point. The 22 foot cabin cruiser 1-G-266, carrying five men and a girl, sank in heavy seas during a 35 mile gale while heading toward the Squalus salvage area four miles off the coast.
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Rye Beach
N. H
Dover Point
Portsmouth
Heckled Sect Scuffler Held on Disturbance Charge
William Hall, 50, a Jehovah's Witness, was under $500 bond for creating a disturbance after a scuffle at a Saturday night meeting in Hubbard. Police say he clashed with hecklers among about 1200 spectators at the mass meeting to raise funds.
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Youngstown
W.P
William Hall
Jehovah's Witnesses
Liberty
Hubbard
Hall
Hundreds Clear Track After Wreck in Jersey
Service on the Central Railroad of New Jersey tracks south of Chatsworth resumed after repair work on derailment damage to the Blue Comet. Five hundred men worked Saturday night and Sunday clearing wreckage of five cars and fixing several hundred feet of torn track between Atlantic City and Jersey City.
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Chatsworth
N. J
U.P
Central Railroad of
New Jersey
Here
Atlantic City
Jersey City
Burglary at Springfield Clothing Store Probed
Police investigate a $2,000 clothing store burglary in Springfield where looters climbed roofs in the business district and tore a large brick wall hole to enter.
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Springfield
U.P
Railroad Engine Lands In Yard After Wreck
Investigation began today into a freight train locomotive wreck in Columbus yards. Fireman Loranzi McCord of Galion suffered a broken collar bone as the engine pulling 53 cars struck cars being switched, toppled over an embankment and stopped within 25 feet of a five family apartment house.
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Columbus
Iu.p
Loranzi McCord
Galion
W. G. Voelker
New York Central Railroad
Father of Six Dies At Home in Pomeroy
Frank Krautter age 46 died Sunday at his Kerrs Run home in Pomeroy. Funeral services will be Tuesday at 2 pm at Enterprise Church with interment in Gilmore Cemetery. He leaves a wife, four daughters Frieda Evelyn Lillian and Mrs Marie Thomas, two sons Frank and Larry, sisters Mrs Laura Schreiner and Mrs Rhiney Swartz, brothers Richard Christy and Harry, and his 83 year old father Harry Krautter.
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Pomeroy
Frank Krautter
Kerrs Run
Enterprise Church
Gilmore Cemetery
Krautter
Frieda
Evelyn
Lillian
Marie Thomas
Frank
Larry
Laura Schreiner
Pittsburgh
Rhiney Swartz
Mason City
Richard
Christy
Harry
Pleasant
Harry Krautter
Nazis Tried To Sway Tampa Faculty With Gift of Books
Dr. John Harvey Sherman president of the University of Tampa testified that the German consul in New Orleans offered a Nazi government book gift to influence the faculty. The gift was said to require assurance that the German professor was adequate. Professor Otto Kraus, born in Vienna and naturalized in 1937, occupied the chair and faced prior attacks.
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Washington
U.P
John Harvey Sherman
University of Tampa
New Orleans
Sherman
Baron Edgar von Spiegel
Kraus
Vienna
Tampa
Fifth Chinese Torturer Held
Cleveland police charged Yee Chow a 52 year old man with extortion linked to beatings of Chinese victims in a temple for non-contribution to war relief in China. He is the fifth Chinese jailed over the case with $1.32 allegedly taken from Fong Gong. Three others are still sought. Chow to be arraigned Tuesday with $5 000 bond set.
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Cleveland
Yee Chow
China
Fong Gong
On Leong
Falls on Knife While Chasing Chicken Dies in Ohio
Youngstown resident Mrs. Stephen Florescu placed a chicken in a coal bin for a Sunday meal. Her husband Stephen Florescu pursued the chicken with a butcher knife, tripped and fell onto the blade, severing an artery and dying from blood loss.
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Youngstown
Stephen Florescu
Florescu
Belgium Leads Minor Neutrals Conference For Peace Move
Belgium proposes Oslo Powers including the Netherlands Finland Belgium Luxemburg Denmark Norway and Sweden appeal to major powers for peace. King Leopold to host Oslo ministers in Brussels to draft a joint proposal and discuss safeguarding neutrality and supplies in wartime.
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Belgium
Conference of
Europe
Brussels
Oslo
Netherlands
Finland
Luxemburg
Denmark
Norway
Sweden
Leopold
Oslo States
Germany
Scandinavia
Rome
Pius XII
Warsaw
Danzig
Bucharest
Romania
Stephen Csaky
Italy
Poland
Berlin
Hungary
Britain
France
London
Ayrshire
Council of Ministers
Slovakia
Austria
Russia
Mayor F H LaGuardia seeks milk strike settlement
Mayor LaGuardia called a conference to halt a week old milk strike that halved New York City's supply and risks a metropolitan milk famine. The United Milk Farmers Union and Metropolitan Milk Distributors Bargaining Agency traded claims as losses climbed, with 60 percent of milk supply affected and calls for higher prices from 2.25 to 2.35 per 100 pounds.
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New York
Upper
New York State
Pennsylvania
Vermont
New York City
Metropolitan Milk Distributors Bargaining Agency
Archie Wright
Utica
N. Y
Wright
Legion Pledge Given To Solve Youth Problem
At the 21st Ohio American Legion convention in Akron five thousand Legionnaires pledged to help youth. State commander E. L. Jensen urged citizens' responsibility. A model encampment of 600 Sons of the American Legion was held at Peninsula. Bob Lukens, 16, Buckeye Boys' State governor, spoke for youth and pledged to uphold Legion ideals.
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AKRON
U.P
Ohio Legionnaires
America
21St
Ohio American Legion Convention
E. L. Jensen
Springfield
Begion
Sons of the American Legion
Peninsula
Bob Lukens
Buckeye Boys
American Legion
Jail Breaker Returned To Police by Parents
Eugene Porter, 23, of Columbus, one of two men who escaped Sunday from Delaware County Jail, was brought back to Franklin County jail by his parents. Porter's father urged consequences and reform as the jailer confirmed the return. Porter reportedly appeared home after midnight hungry. The other escapee, Henry Modzelewski, 23, from Farming Hills, Mass., remains at large.
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Columbus
U.P
Franklin County
Eugene Porter
Delaware County
Porter
Ray Roberts
Henry Modzelewski
Farming Hills
Mass
Delaware
Cincinnati Reds to curb ticket scalping at home games
Cincinnati baseball officials said police would aid in stopping scalping at Crosley Field after two men were arrested for selling tickets above face value. Joseph Bergman and William Brown face misdemeanor charges. the case prompts a tax inquiry by a federal agent into uncollected taxes on ticket sales.
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Cincinnati
U.P
Cincinnati Baseball Club
Cincinnati Reds
Warren Giles
Crosley Field
Joseph Bergman
Covington
Ball Park
William Brown
Berman
Chicago
Brown
Dayton
Bergman
Ballpark
Kirgan
Edward G. Weinewuth
U. S
Bund leaders named in testimony on attempted attack
Miss Vorros testifies about an alleged attack by Bund figure Frederick Vandenberg linked to Camp Nordland in Andover New Hampshire. She mentions August Klapprott and Gustave Elimer as officials of other Bund camps at Siegfried in Yaphank Long Island, though not named in her testimony.
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Frederick Vandenberg
Brooklyn
Bund
Miss Vorros
August Klapprott
Nordland
Andover
N. H
Gustave Elimer
Siegfried
Yaphank
Long Island
Klapprott
Elmer
New York
Fritz Kuhn
Martin Dies
House ‘Committee
Helen Vorros
Kuhn
Dies
Series of Family Deaths By Accident Investigated
Durant Oklahoma reports that County Attorney William Steger seeks help from Arkansas Texas and Illinois authorities to trace the life of John C Story 60 a soap salesman linked publicly to an alleged insurance murder. The case includes multiple family deaths dating back twenty years from Peoria Illinois to Gainesville Texas De Queen Arkansas and a fatal fire at the Story farm.
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Durant
Okla
William Steger
Arkansas
Texas
Illinois
John C. Story
Story
Peoria
Charles
Frank
Gainesville
Tex
Joe
Dequeen Ark
Ethel Story
Story Farm
Here
Steger
Oklahoma
Urges 'Front' To Meet Reds
In a Detroit Sunday sermon Rev. Charles E. Coughlin urged forming a Christian front to counter communism in the United States. He claimed the popular front includes 60 committees and societies and called for a counter-force to defend Americanism and Christianity.
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Detroit
U.P
Charles FE. Coughlin
United States
Popular Front
Meigs Woman Victim of Traffic Accident
Miss Caddie Henshaw age 56 of Middleport was struck by a car driven by Harold Lohse while crossing Route 7 near the Dailey filling station between Pomeroy and Middleport. She was seriously injured and taken home for first examination noted possible brain concussion and severe scalp arm and leg lacerations.
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Middleport
Caddie Henshaw
Harold Lohse
Dailey
Pomeroy
Miss Henshaw
Ohio Bigelow amendment petitions show 21 percent invalid
Secretary of State Earl Griffith announced that about 21 percent of signatures from 33 Ohio counties on the Bigelow $50 a month old age referendum are invalid. If this rate holds across the remaining 55 counties, organizers must obtain roughly 42,000 more valid signatures to reach the 241,287 required for November ballots.
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Columbus
U.P
Ohio
Earl Griffith
Griffith
Funeral for Harrison Rawlings Held at Finsterwald
Funeral services were conducted today at 4 p m from the Finsterwald Funeral Home for Harrison Rawlings 92 who died Saturday night at his Union Avenue home where he lived alone Burial followed at Beech Grove with no known relatives in attendance
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Pomeroy
Finsterwald
Harrison Rawlings
Union Ave
Beech Grove
Japs Destroy Kiating City in Mistaken Chiangkai Shek Hunt
Japanese forces reportedly destroyed three-fourths of Kiating in a raid aimed at Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, while bombs also hit two chapels of a Reformed Church mission at Yuanling in Hunan Province.
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Chungking
China
U.P
Kiating
Chiang Kai- Shek
George R. Snyder
Akron
Ohio
Reformed Church
Yuanling
Hunan
Child Unhurt After Fall Into 14 Foot Cistern
In Aurora Indiana three year old Bobby Roberts son of Raymond Roberts fell 14 feet into a cistern while playing. He clung to a pipe until his mother heard him and a neighbor helped pull him to safety before two other neighbors built a ladder and rescued both him and the parent.
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Aurora
Ind
Bobby Roberts
Raymond Roberts
Thomas Fork Woman Bitten by Copperhead on Porch
Mrs. Delbert Hysell of Thomas Fork was bitten twice on the leg by a copperhead Sunday. She was rushed by ambulance to Holzer Hospital for treatment and is reported recovering.
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Pomeroy
Delbert Hysell
Holzer Hospital
Hysell
Thomas Fork
Mother's Hotel Death Plunge Is Investigated
In Lexington Kentucky a 22 year old mother Betty Jones Spears formerly of Cincinnati fell to her death from a hotel window before her four year old son. Police say the child told them the suspect pushed his mother out of the window and the man remains in technical custody pending further investigation.
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Lexington
U.P
Betty Jones Spears
Cincinnati
Barberton Driver Held After Fatal Collision
Barberton resident Paul Carrington aged 28 faces second degree manslaughter charges after a crash three miles west of North Jackson killed Norman Caston 23 from Salem. The collision involved Carrington and Caston in separate vehicles on Saturday.
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Barberton
U.P
Paul Carrington
Norman Caston
Salem
North Jackson
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