Chiang Kai-Shek vows no peace until sovereignty is respected
Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek declares in Hankow that there will be no ceasefire in the Far East until China’s sovereignty is recognized. Reported by the Hong Kong Telegraph as foreign diplomats gather in Hong Kong amid mediation talk. Chinese commanders report heavy Japanese advances with high casualties as guerilla units harass Japanese forces around Shanghai. Bonnet announces a three part Near East treaty with Turkey to be signed soon.
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Shanghai
U.P
Chiang Kai-Shek
Far East
China
Hankow
Lung-Hai
Chiang
Hong Kong
Wangtien
Sunkiang
Kashing
Paris
U.2
Georges Bonnet
Turkey
Near East
Body of Missing Heir Found in Sandia Mountains
The body of John Medill McCormick heir to a publishing fortune and grandson of Mark Hanna was recovered in the Sandia Mountains after a weeklong search. His companion Richard Whitmer’s body was found earlier on a ledge. both fell during a mountain expedition.
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Albuquerque
N. M
U.P
John Medill McCormick
Mark Hanna
Sandia Mountains
United States Forest Service
Ruth Hanna McCormick Simms
McCormick
Richard Whitmer
Whitmer
Sandia Peak
Canon del Agua
Former Agent Turreu Attacks Hoover Over Dismissal
Leon G. Turreu, once an FBI ace, says J Edgar Hoover showed hypocrisy as Turreu was discharged with prejudice. He planned newspaper articles about a foreign spy ring he helped break, but the Justice Department drafted the dismissal before action on his resignation.
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Philadelphia
Leon G. Turreu
Federal Bureau of Investigation
J. Edgar Hoover
Department of v
Hoover
Turreu
Department of Justice
Body Found in Sound May Be Missing Flier
A body recovered from Long Island Sound in a fishing net near Norwalk may be Andrew Carnegie Whitfield who vanished after flying from Roosevelt Field on April 5. Whitfield, a nephew of the late Andrew Carnegie, had been missing for some time.
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Norwalk
Conn
U.P
Long Island Sound
Andrew Carnegie Whitfield
Roosevelt Field
S. 1
Whitfield
Andrew Cirnegie
Mine Collapse Traps Six After Praco Coal Cave-In
One man is dead and six others are trapped alive after a cave-in at the Praco coal mine of the Alsa By-Products Company in Praco Alabama. Rescue crews work to reach those inside as crews report the accident.
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PRACO
Ala
U.P
Alasa By-Products Company
Taft Roosevelt Families to Meet on Platform
Taft and Roosevelt kin will reunite on a political platform at the Western Reserve historical celebration in Warren on Saturday night. Col. Theodore Roosevelt and Robert P. Taft will shake hands and speak, reuniting for the first time in 25 years since the Bull Moose split in 1912.
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Warren
U.P
Taft
Roosevelt
Teddy” Roosevelt
Bull Moose
Col
Theodore Roosevelt
National Republican Club
Robert P. Taft
Western Reserve
Release Count On Bond After Threat Charge
London report says Count Curt Haugwitz-Reventlow was freed on a $10,000 bond and ordered to Bow Street court Tuesday over charges he threatened to shoot his wife Barbara Hutton heiress of the $40,000,000 five and ten cent store fortune. He must not contact her after counsel’s reference to a firearm amid statements that he threatened the countess’s life or bodily harm.
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London
A.P
Curt Haugwitz-Reventlow
Bow Street
Barbara Hutton
Patrick Hastings
Barbara
Officials To Testify in Strike-Breaking Charge
Investigators from the La Follette civil liberties committee gathered material in Ohio cities to support claims that citizens' committees acted as a third party to break last year's little steel strike. Chief witnesses will be city and county officials and civic group officers connected with the Republic Steel and Youngstown Sheet and Tube actions a year ago.
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Washington
U.P
la Follette Civil Liberties Committee
Ohio
Citizens’ Committees
Committee For Industrial Organization
Republic Steel
Youngstown Sheet and Tube
Seven Indicted Officials Enter Not Guilty Pleas
Seven Davey lieutenants indicted by Attorney General Herbert S. Duffy's special grand jury on charges of soliciting campaign contributions from state civil service employees pleaded not guilty at arraignment.
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Columbus
Davey
Herbert S. Duffy
Attorney General Declines Senate Bid in Connecticut
Stamford Connecticut Homer S. Cummings denied any interest in a U S Senate run saying reports of a candidacy were utter nonsense and that no office other than the one he holds appeals to him.
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Stamford
Conn
Homer S. Cummings
U. S
Connecticut
Raid at Swatow Wounds Over a Thousand
Reports from Swatow indicate a Japanese air raid harmed or killed more than 1,000 people. The city faced heavy damage as rescuers searched for survivors amid smoke and ruins.
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Watow
China
China Port
1939 Budget Forecast Shows Record Spending Ahead
Treasury officials project the 1939 fiscal year will see expenditures exceed revenues by about 4.4 billion dollars, the largest since World War I. The deficit depends on uncertain revenue, with 1938 receipts at 6.25 billion and potential 1939 revenue near 5 billion. The debt could reach 40.7 billion by June 1939 as Morgenthau outlines possible tax talks for 1940.
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Washington
Treasury
Congress
Henry Morgenthau, Jr
Roosevelt
Dispute Over Relief Money Heightens
Washington reports two Senators sharpened the relief controversy. Sen. Hatch warned relief funds used for political ends may wreck the Democratic Party and predicted the next Congress would pass a law barring relief officials from political activity. Sen. Walsh warned Democrats that using relief money to purge anti New Deal candidates could destroy the party.
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Washington
U.P
Carl A. Hatch
N. M
David I. Walsh
Mass
U S Orders 98 Airplanes In Largest Peace Time Fleet
The War Department announced contracts valuing 14 million four hundred fifty three thousand two hundred seven dollars for 98 airplanes. The order includes 13 Flying Fortress bombers 78 two motor Douglas bombers 7 Vultee attack planes and needed motors and equipment. Four motor contracts totaling 2 573 286 were awarded to three manufacturers for 276 engines.
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Washington
U.S
War Department
Three Die as Michigan Auto Crashes Kill Three
In two Michigan wrecks Thursday night three people died and 18 were injured. Near Pontiac a car and bus collided in rain. Edith Parker 40 and G H Lunt 43 from Flint died. Near Bay City Mrs Harvey Miller 40 of Detroit was killed when her car collided with one driven by Louis Sibelsky 30 of Dayton Ohio.
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Detroit
A.P
Michigan
Pontiac
Edith Parker
G. H. Lunt
Flint
Bay City
Harvey Miler
Louis Sibelsky
Dayton
Budge Captures English Tennis Title at Wimbledon
World No. 1 J Donald Budge of Oakland defeated Henry Wilfred Bunny Austin in straight sets 6-1 11-0 6-3 to win the all England singles title for the second straight year in Wimbledon, England.
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Wimbledon
Eng
J. Donald Budge
Oakland
Cal
Henry Wilfred
Bunny) Austin
England
Barbara Statler Wins First Round in Separate Maintenance Suit
In Los Angeles a 21 year old Mrs Barbara Statler is granted temporary support of 1000 dollars monthly after winning the first round of her separate maintenance suit against Ellsworth Morgan Statler 25 heir to hotel millions. The couple wed last October after a romance at a dude ranch.
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Smile
Los Angeles
Morgan Statler
Willis Nominated for Indiana Senate Seat on Third Ballot
Raymond F. Willis editor of the Angola Steuben County Republican won the GOP nomination for Indiana senator at a party convention in Indianapolis on the third ballot. He defeated former Senator James E. Watson and four other candidates.
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Raymond F. Willis
Angola Steuben County
Indiana
Indianapolis
James E. Watson
Crooner Powell Welcomes Eight-Pound Daughter Ellen
Hollywood report says Dick Powell singer wife Joan Blondell welcomed an eight pound baby girl born Thursday. The child is to be christened Ellen and is Blondell's second child. Blondell has a three year old son, Norman Scott Barnes, from her first marriage to George Barnes. Powell adopted him with Barnes' approval.
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Hollywood
Dick Powell
Joan Blondell
Ellen
Miss Blondell
Norman Scott Barnes
George Barnes
Powell
Barnes
Girls and father tied to death of 10 year old
In Waycross Georgia Solicitor General John Gibson said Verna Mae Clark 18 and Mary Kent 17 confessed they drew straws with guidance from Harvey Nelson 40 to decide who would kill the 10 year old boy known as J C to claim $900 life insurance. Nelson denies the shooting with Miss Clark saying he fired the gun.
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Waycross
U.P
Johns
Gibson
Harvey Nelson
Nelson
Verna Mae Clark
Mary Kent
J.C
Miss Clark
Drop Disbarment Case Against CIO Attorney
Edward Lamb of Toledo, Ohio, a Committee for Industrial Organization attorney, had disbarment proceedings here dismissed by Judge Hector S. Young. Lamb apologized to the court, and the record noted the case as complete vindication for the attorney amid charges of unprofessional conduct involving moral turpitude.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Portsmouth
U.P
Edward Lamb
Toledo
Committee For Industrial Organization
Ohio
Lamb
Hector S. Young
Marion
Shoe Workers Threaten Strike in Portsmouth
Union and non union workers of Selby Shoe Co announce a strike within a week to restore May 1 pay cuts and obtain closed shop agreements. An informal vote at a mass meeting drew 1,400 of 2,200 workers.
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Portsmouth
U.P
Seby Shoe Co
Grant
Selby
First Poland Lithuania Train Since 1940s Opens Kaunas Route
The first service between Poland and Lithuania in 20 years departed Warsaw for Kaunas today marking a historic reopening of the cross border rail link.
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Warsaw
Poland
Lithuania
Kaunas
Shell inventor dies in Paris
Frederick Robin the man who designed the shells used by the French 75 artillery died Thursday night at Nanjouillet Paris.
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Paris
U.P
Frederick Robin
Nanjouillet
Cameraman Fatally Shot on Universal Lot
Hollywood scene turns real as King Gray, 42, a veteran cameraman, is found shot dead at the wheel of his car on the Universal Studio lot. Police call it murder though no gun is found. A fired cartridge jacket lies on the floor. wallet and diamond ring untouched. a letter mailed from Newcastle, Pennsylvania, is in his hand.
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Hollywood
Calif
U.P
King Gray
Universal Studio
Gray
Newcastle
Penn
Violence Allegations In Sudeten Sudeten Incident Reported
Berlin reports a clash in Freiwaldau in the Sudeten belt where more than a dozen Czechoslovak soldiers allegedly attacked a Sudeten German official named Schmidt. Newspapers criticize Prague's delays in minority negotiations and comment on the incident.
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Berlin
Freiwaldau
Czechoslovakia
Schmidt
Thirteen Rumanians in Fascist Plot Sentenced
In Bucharest, thirteen of twenty Iron Guard lieutenants found to have tried to overthrow the government were given seven years in prison. Three others received five years, one year for another, and two who escaped concentration camps were sentenced in absentia to nine years.
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Bucharest
Rumania
U.P
Iron Guard
Police Baffle in Missing Kiwanian Case
In San Francisco police offered no clues in the disappearance of Charles P. Peters 52 a Hopewell Virginia merchant and Kiwanis civic leader who attended the Kiwanis convention. He vanished Tuesday raising fears of amnesia or foul play.
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San Francisco
U.P
Charles P. Peters
Hopewell
Peters
Freight Train Fatality in Fremont
William Whalen of Detroit was killed Thursday night here after being struck by a Wheeling and Lake Erie freight train while walking on the gillroad tracks.
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Fremont
U.P
William Whalen
Detroit
Wheeling and Lake Erie
Rebel Pledge To Avoid Bombings Quiets War Fear
Anxiety over Spanish civil war spreading abroad eased as the International Non Inter Intervention Committee details a plan to guard borders and census foreign volunteers. Nationalist Franco may create neutral ports for British ships, while a 2 000 airplane peace time air force signals Spain’s growing power. France Turkey treaty shifts eastern Mediterranean alliances with Russia.
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London
U.P
Spain
International Non-Intervention Committee
Europe
Mediterranean
Alfredo Kindelan
Britain
Gibraltar
France
Turkey
Dardanelles
Russia
Rusesia
Solons Clear Way to Vote on New Relief Plan
In Columbus the House and Senate leaders cleared the path for a vote on a year end relief program. A Democratic House caucus approved the compromise to end last week’s legislative deadlock and Republicans were expected to back it to tackle the emergency clause. Rep. George A. Banks introduced a bill requiring local governments sharing relief funds to use only Ohio mined coal for public purposes.
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Columbus
House
Senate
General Assembly
George A. Banks
Athens
Ohio
Grand Jury Reopens Cable Murder Case in Canton
The Stark County grand jury reopens the unsolved shotgun murder of Mrs. Deubert Cable, wife of a Canton contractor, on March 11, 1937. Subpoenas for Cable Construction Co. books were issued by Prosecuting Attorney A. C. L. Barthelmeh who said no new indictments are expected. He added that much new information had been obtained.
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Canton
Stark County Grand Jury
Deubert
Cable
Cable Construction Co
A. C. L. Barthelmeh
Barthelmeh
Panay Officers and Crew Honored for Heroism
The United States government honored the Panay officers and crew for heroism during the December Japanese aerial bombing that sank the gun boat in the Yangtze River last year.
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Panay
Washington
United States
Yangtze River
Typhoon in Japan Moves to Sea After Wrecking Areas
A typhoon that damaged large areas of Japan, killing 134 and leaving thousands homeless, moved back to sea as authorities began rehabilitation efforts.
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Tokyo
Japan
Utilities and Steel Rise After Irregular Start
The stock market advanced in New York trading after a quiet opening with gains of about $2 a share for utilities and steel shares. United States Steel rose to around $35 a share as other groups joined the upswing in a broad market advance.
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New York
Steels
United States Steel
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Statler
Tenance
Ellsworth
Mance
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Dorothy
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