Roosevelt Hull clash over neutrality message to Congress
President Roosevelt and Secretary Hull argued over the tone of a neutrality message to Congress. Roosevelt favored forceful language to repeal the arms embargo whereas Hull feared angering the Rome Berlin axis and antagonizing the Senate.
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Roosevelt
Hull
Congress
Washington
Cordell Hull
Senate
White House
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Hill
Senate Committee
Key Pittman
Boost Garner Moves to Halt Vote Buying in 1940 Nomination
Washington dispatch reports Garner for President organizers pushing to curb federal official involvement in politics. Vice President Garner backs the Hatch Bill to bar federal workers from political activity. Texas aides reveal Garner loyalists plan to exclude federal job holders from delegation to deny Roosevelt control of the 1940 convention.
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Washington
U.P
Garner
John N. Garner
Texas
Roosevelt
Louisville's Best Breast-Fed Baby Wins Title
In Louisville Kentucky 14 month old Larry Lee Habich won the title of Louisville's best breast fed baby. The boy is the son of Mr and Mrs Adolph Habich and follows his cousin Ned Beatty who held the prize last year. The winner earned a prize of 100 dollars according to Mrs Habich the prize once again shows family pride.
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Louisville
Larry Lee Habich
Larry
Ned Beatty
Adolph Habich
Habich
Kidnaper Says Baby Nabbing A Joke InWA
Maurice Lies, 20, a farmhand in Vancouver Washington, admitted to police he stole an 18 month old child to scare a divorcee named Alice Winston as a prank. Winston declined to prosecute after hearing his claim it was a joke and noting Washington law allows death or life for kidnapping.
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Vancouver
Wash
U.P
Maurice Lies
Alice Winston
Reuben Webb of New Straitsville Dies in Columbus
Reuben Webb age 55 formerly of New Straitsville died yesterday in Columbus. Survived by wife Tessa Sweaty Webb of Carbon Hill, two brothers Charles and Tom of New Straitsville, and sister Harriet of Columbus. Funeral set for 10 in the morning tomorrow in Columbus.
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New Straitsville
Reuben Webb
Columbus
Tessa Sweaty Webb
Carbon Hill
Charles
Tom
Harriet
Corrigan Missing in Storm Flight Through Texas
Bulletin from Del Rio Texas reports Douglas Corrigan missing on a flight through stormy airspace between Dryden and San Antonio. He was last seen flying a plane described as the wrong-way flyer. Authorities issued a search and requested any sightings promptly.
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del Rio
Tex
U.P
Douglas Corrigan
Dryden
San Antonio
Convicted trio named in historic 1934 armored car robbery
A New York jury found Stewart Wallace Joseph Kress and Thomas Quinn guilty of first degree robbery for a $427 950 armored car heist in 1934 the largest cash hold up in history Sentencing was deferred.
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New York
Stewart Wallace
Joseph Kress
Thomas Quinn
Improvement planned for Route 50 in Athens area
Assurances of a third and largest improvement of the Athens Coolville stretch of U. S. Route 50 were given by the State Highway Department. The project relocates and grades three miles through Carthage Gap to the Route 50 and 7 intersection near Coolville with plans to finish this week.
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Athens
Coolville
State Highway Department
Marietta
Carthage Gap
Columbus
Clark Handle Works
Carl H. Beasley
Gordon K. Bush
C. M. Gill
F. D. Forsyth
Nelson Essex Home Destroyed by Flames
Fire in New Straitsville destroyed the home of the late Nelson Essex, occupied by Mrs. Lottie Porter. She was away at her mother’s house. no one was inside. Porter planned to drive to Mansfield. Furnishings reportedly insured. total damage yet to be estimated. Cause unknown.
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New Straitsville
Nelson Essex
Lottie Porter
Porter
Anna Holcomb
Mansfield
Social Security Faces Revision in Senate Debate
The Senate prepared to vote on amendments to the Social Security Act to liberalize and speed up old age payments at an estimated five year cost of 2 billion dollars. Senator Bilbo proposed a federal pension of 30 dollars monthly for the aged. A bid for 40 dollar payments was defeated 55 to 16 and final action was expected today before House concurrence on changes including Connally’s plan to raise federal grants for old age assistance to two dollars per one contributed by states up to fifteen dollars.
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Washington
Senate
Theodore G. Bilbo
Miss
Jose Lee
Okla
Alben W. Barkley
House
Tom Connally
Tex
U. S. Plans Super Fighting Planes to Supersede Allies
United States military officials say a fleet of new "super" fighting planes will be built, ranging from single seat pursuit craft to multi engine bombers with crews over ten. By two to three years most of the 9,000 authorized aircraft for army and navy will be of this type. Top speeds exceed earlier models with pursuit planes around 375 mph and bombers over 300 mph. Germany's fastest pursuit planes run about 350 mph, British designs slightly faster but with weaker motors. American superiority hinges on speed and superior construction materials.
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Washington
T)p
United States
Army
Navy
Germany
WPA Officials Dismiss 13 000 In Wage Strike
Washington U P Works Projects Administration officials dismissed more than 13 000 WPA workers today for striking against the abolition of the prevailing wage scale for skilled laborers on relief. Harrington ordered any worker absent more than five days to be discharged. Reports vary on totals with Harrington noting 77 000 stopped work and unions estimating over 150 000 involved.
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Washington
U.P
Works Projects Administration
WPA
Harrington
Union
Workers Alliance
CIO Plans To Test Picketing At Fisher Body Plant
United Auto Workers CIO ordered thousands of pickets to mass at the Fisher Body Plant gates in Pontiac to challenge the new state labor law enforcement. Detroit Toledo Flint and Saginaw locals were urged to supply up to a thousand men with a goal of five thousand, while state police prepared to enforce a limit of ten pickets per gate.
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Pontiac
Mich
U.P
United Automobile Workers
CIO
Fisher Body
Detroit
Toledo
Flint
Saginaw
Union
Reformatory Sentence for Assisting Juvenile Escape
Donavan M. Bryan t 22 of Hillsboro a speech class teacher at the Boys Industrial School Lancaster pleaded guilty to burglary and was sentenced to Mansfield Reformatory. He aided escapees Jack Hawley 17 and Norman Stanton 15 and loaned them a gun. the youths were returned to the institution.
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Columbus
Donavan M. Bryant
Hillsboro
Boys Industrial School
Lancaster
Mansfield Reformatory
Bryant
Jack Hawley
Norman Stanton
Middletown
Kroger Founder Estate Valued at 22 Million
An application to determine inheritance taxes on the late B. H. Kroger estate lists assets at 22.75 million with a prior appraisal of 8.71 million. Four trust funds for two daughters a son and a son-in-law raised the value. The largest trust totals 10.39 million.
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Cincinnati
B. H. Kroger
Kroger Grocery and Baking Co
Kroger
Unidentified boy drowns at Lakeside Yacht Club
The body of a 13 year old boy who drowned yesterday in the Lakeside Yacht Club basin in Cleveland remains unidentified today.
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Cleveland
Lakeside Yacht Club
Fernand Rinfret Dies in Los Angeles of Heart Attack
Canadian secretary of state Fernand Rinfret died today in Los Angeles from a heart attack. His office in Montreal was advised of the death.
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Montreal
Fernand Rinfret
Los Angeles
Britain calls more men asks fund increase for defenses
United Press reports Great Britain expands defense effort with 32 000 additional RAF personnel and 866 450 000 dollars in defense funding, bringing annual total near 4 billion. Conscript plans for Hong Kong defense noted as part of a broader Far East buildup. King George to review forces at Weymouth Bay August 9.
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Britain
United Press
Great Britain
Gibraltar
China Sea
Royal Air Force
Hong Kong
China
Ville Chamberlain
King George
Weymouth Bay
England
Holt letter offers WV miners a path to work again
Gov Homer A Holt sends 2500 letters to idle West Virginia coal miners. He suggests returning to work under pre March 30 conditions while negotiations for a new contract resume. He says his action is not against the United Mine Workers and asks if opponents have offered subsistence. He notes miners are ready to return and urges focus on work opportunities.
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Charleston
W. Va
Homer A. Holt
West Virginia
Holt
Roosevelt seeks modest men as his assistants
President Roosevelt studied a list of names for three more aides to form a six man team of administrative helpers. The first three assistant presidents appointed under the reorganization bill are William H. McReynolds, James H. Rowe Jr., and Lachlin Currie. They will advise on administrative legal and economic issues.
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Washington
U.P
Roosevelt
William H. McReynolds
Secretary of the Treasury
Henry Morgenthau, Jr
James H. Rowe, Jr
White House
Edwin M. Watson
Lachlin Currie
Federal Reserve Board
Drive Against Society Smugglers Opens In New York
A federal grand jury is sworn in today as part of a drive against society smugglers. Informers rewards cited for tips in cases involving Jack Benny George Burns and Mrs Edgar J Lauer spur a surge of cooperation from disgruntled servants and others.
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New York
U.P
Jack Benny
George Burns
Edgar J. Lauer
New York Supreme Court
Ohio sales tax forecast to rise by six million in 1939
Ohio State Treasurer Don Ebright announced a projected $6,000,000 increase in 1939 sales tax revenue after six months of data. Jan 1 to Jul 1 totals show sales tax up $2,834,459 versus 1938, with overall revenue over $13,000,000 higher and a general fund balance of $7,712,953.
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Columbus-Au.p
Ohio
Don H. Ebright
Treasury
Ebright
School Foundation
Raise Fund To Stop Paralysis Epidemic in Los Angeles County
Emergency action to curb infantile paralysis outbreak in Los Angeles County with 30 cases under treatment across scattered areas. County board sets aside 500000 emergency fund for General Hospital to take needed measures to prevent a recurrence of the 1934-35 epidemic that had 1420 cases.
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Los Angeles
WAP
Everett J. Gray
County General Hospital
Board of Supervisors
Gray
McNutt Confirmed as Director of Federal Security Agency
The Senate confirmed Paul V. McNutt's appointment as director of the Federal Security Agency, marking a milestone in his national political record.
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Washington
U.P
Paul V. McNutt
Senate
Federal Security Agency
Weather Talk Fizzles as Belser Wears Tiny Lapel Thermometer
Eve Lyn Belser wears a tiny lapel thermometer to answer hot weather questions while Weaver responds with a simple yes, noting temperatures from 88 and up. The light exchange ends the weather chat despite the heat.
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Evelyn Belser
Weaver
Gadget
Young Chinese Cries for Life At Execution
Pang Young, a 28 year old Chinese inmate, was electrocuted at Ohio Penitentiary for the hold up murder of James Hill, a 60 year old Cincinnati laundryman. Officials called it one of the era's most nerve wracking executions. he prayed, sang along to a phonograph playing Beautiful Lady, and requested funeral flowers and a testament before burial.
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Columbus
U.P
Pang Young
Ohio
James Hill
Cincinnati
Young
Pope grants private audiences to U S Catholic leaders
The Vatican announced private audiences were given today to Mer Peter Hynoven vice president of the Catholic Newspaper Association of the United States and Mrs Joseph Weigand vicar general of Columbus Ohio.
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Vatican City
U.P
Mer
Peter Hynoven
Catholic Newspaper Association of the
United States
Joseph Weigand
Columbus
Tax Leader Warns Economy Must Be Enforced to Save Democracy
Samuel P. Bush, president of the Citizens' Tax League of Ohio, told the Meigs County Taxpayers Association that citizens must accept responsibilities or democracy will fail. He argued federal aid to states drains funds, urged halting tax and expenditure growth, and explained the league's aims to curb government corruption and improve efficiency.
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Pomeroy
Samuel P. Bush
Citizens’ Tax League of Ohio
Meigs County Taxpayers’ Association
Ohio
Bush
United States
State Tax League
Mr. Bush
Zers
National Guard Deploys to End Harlan County Coal Clash
National Guard reinforcements arriving in Harlan County Kentucky bolster a patrol to quell fighting between UMWA pickets and non union miners. One miner died two guardsmen and several civilians injured as Gov Chandler calls for indictments against leaders and officials blame inciting riot.
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Harlan
National Guard
Harlan County
Harlan Coal Fields
A. B. Chandler
United Mine Workers of America
Congress of Industrial Organizations
UMWA
National
Chandler
Harlan Grand Jury
John L. Lewis
CIO
Joseph Kelly
Kentucky National Guard
Fort Knox
James S. Golden
Umwa District 19
Fred Staples
Second Try at Chute Jump Ends Successfully
Joseph Rathborne and his wife Nancy completed a parachute jump at the New York World's Fair in under two minutes after a prior failed ascent when their chute fouled on pulleys during a 250 foot tower climb.
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New York
U.P
Joseph Cornelius Rathborne
Nancy
Meteor fragment fetches four dollars in Ontario find
An 88 pound fragment of a meteor that flashed over the western Lake Erie region was bought by Luke Smith of Chatham from Dan Solomon who discovered it. The charred stone-like projectile embedded seven feet in the ground in a field six miles south of Dresden Ontario.
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Dresden
Ont
U.P
Lake Erie
Luke Smith
Chatham
Dan Solomon
Five Elks scholarship winners named for most valuable student
Arthur B. Logan of Parkersburg West Virginia was among five youths chosen for a $150 college scholarship by the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. The selection honors the nation’s most valuable student, with Logan noted in this St Louis dispatch from U P.
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ST. Louis
U.P
Arthur B. Logan
Parkersburg
W. Va
National Foundation of the Benevolent and ‘Protective Order of Elks
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Pittman
Barkley
Clark
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Philadelphia
Madeline Shamblin
Charlestown
Pauline
Galveston
U. S
Women's Auxiliary Territorial Service
Surrey
Reformatory
Far East
Europe
Japan
House of Commons
Gov
Fdr
McNutt
Congress of Industrial Organizations Today
Harlan” County
Kentucky
Stanfill
William Turnblazer
District 19
Turnblazer
George Titler
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