Police Guard Milk Deliveries in Detroit Strike
Detroit police in cars and on motorcycles will convoy milk wagons Sunday to protect deliveries during a five‑company strike. Acting on Mayor Couzens and Gov. Murphy, Police Superintendent Frahm said trucks will meet tankers at city limits and police protection will back distribute stations. About 2,500 officers were on emergency 12‑hour shifts to guard drivers amid reports of beatings and milk supply cuts affecting 100,000 homes.
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Detroit
U.P
Frank Couzens
Frank Murphy
Fred W. Frahm
Frahm
Louis Berg
Borden's
Farm Products Co
Berg
Gustave Schink
Borden
Couzens
Earhart Hunt Ends Sunday In Pacific Search
Amelia Earhart and Frederick Noonan face official death status if not found by Sunday after 15 days lost since their forced landing. Navy and Coast Guard vessels, including Itasca and Lexington, extend aerial and sea search near Howland Island though fuel limits threaten renewed retirements.
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Swan
Lexington
Pearl Harbor
Seven Week Fremont Strike Comes to Close
A seven week strike involving 400 workers at two Fremont plants ended with signed accords between the Committee for Industrial Organization and Henkel Clauss Co and Schaaf and Good Co. Workers will return to posts Monday. Schaaf and Good workers secured 5 to 12 percent raises, a 40 hour week, C I O recognition, and seniority rights.
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Fremont-Aur
Committee For Industrial Organization
Henkel-Clauss Co
Schaaf & Good Co
30 Day Truce Declared in Michigan Truck Strike
Gov. Frank Murphy called union and operator leaders to a peace conference in Muskegon as a 30 day truce was declared. Operators charged the International Brotherhood of Teamsters chauffeurs stablemen and helpers had broken the strike by accepting a 30 day working agreement with firms in the Port Huron area.
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Muskegon
Mich
Michigan
Frank Murphy
International Brotherhood of Teamsters
Port Huron
Marines Girls Die in Triangle Crash Near Quantico
Four people died when a car carrying two Marines and two young women crashed head on with a large trailer truck south of Triangle Virginia. Two others were seriously injured in the early Saturday wreck near Quantico.
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Quantico
U.P
Triangle
Death of prominent Eastern doctor linked to gambling debts
Prominent obstetrician Dr George W Webster 39 was shot in the vestibule of his East Side home. Police theorize a pay off by horse race gamblers and note Webster had reportedly accumulated gambling debts. Investigators questioned his secretary and others while reviewing office records showing patrons from Newport Narragansett Pier and Jamestown. Police found 12 shells and $300 on the victim.
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Providence
R. I
U.R
George W. Webster
Webster
Citi
Zen
James J. Cusick
Dorothea Gilligan
Arthur
Elizabeth Prince
Newport
Narragansett Pier
Jamestown
R. L
Kathryn Webster
Margie
Fashionable Watch Hill
R. 1
Scores Killed In Train Crash Near Patna
Ninety bodies recovered from the Punjab Bengal express wrecked at Bihta near Patna as seven cars plunged down an embankment. Early figures had suggested up to 280 killed and 250 injured with five carriages smashed.
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Patna
India
U.P
Bihta
Order Rest for Powell After Collapse on Set
William Powell collapsed on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer set from illness after Jean Harlow's death. He was moved to Dr. H. D. Van Freet's office and ordered to take several days of complete rest out of town due to physical and nervous exhaustion.
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Hollywood
AU P
William Powell
Jean Harlow
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
H. D. van Freet
Powell
Federal Agents Probe Roosevelt Threat Note
Two government agents investigated the sending of a threatening letter to President Roosevelt. The note, written on Atlantic City hotel stationery, was postmarked in Atlantic City. Local police said they had no knowledge of the matter.
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Atlantic City
N. J
U.P
Roosevelt
Youth Drowns in Pit Near Cincinnati
Eugene Doyle aged 14 drowned Saturday in a gravel pit in Center Hill suburb. Police searched for a one legged man about 45 whose body was found in the Ohio River.
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Cincinnati
Eugene Doyle
Center Hill
Ohio River
New GM Pact Is Union Goal
UAW officials plan to negotiate a new contract with General Motors. They released Homer Martin’s letter to GM president William S. Knudsen stating unauthorized strikes can be eliminated only by improving grievance machinery. Demands include higher wages a 35 hour work week and UAW exclusivity as bargaining agent for all GM employees.
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Detroit
U.P
United Automobile Workers
General Motors Corporation
UAW
Homer Martin
William S. Knudsen
Martin
General Motors
Scientist Plans Ascent Under Balloon Cluster
Rochester scientist Jean Piccard completed preparations to ride into the sky beneath a cluster of small balloons. He said he will wait for a high pressure area and prefers an evening takeoff if possible as observers indicated the desired conditions may prevail Sunday.
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Rochester
Minn
Jean Piccard
State Blind Aid 80 939 to Ohio for three months
The Social Security Board allocated 80 939 dollars to Ohio for blind assistance covering July August and September. The payment supports Ohio blind residents under the federal program.
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Washington
Social Security Board
Ohio
Youth Shoots Girl Then Self in Jealous Tragedy
In Harrison New York Mary Losito 19 dies from a bullet wound after her 23 year old sweetheart John Passamonti invades her bedroom and shoots her then kills himself. Police say Passamonti opposed her friendships with other men and killed himself after the shooting.
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Harrison
N. Y
U.P
Mary Losito
John Passamonti
Passamonti
Miss Lositi
Japs Mass Powerful Forces Near Chinese Cities
Japanese forces including 400 large three engine bombers reach Formosa and 400000 reservists are ordered to be ready for immediate duty in China. Navy and air units move toward Chinese waters as nationalist leaders pressure Chiang Kai-Shek to resist concessions and avert capitulation.
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Japan
Peiping
Nippon
China
Chiang Kai-Shek
Tientsin
U.P
North China
Chinese Central
Nanking
Formosa
Yangtse River
South China
Canton
Hajime Sugiyama
Chiang
Sung Chey-Yuan
Hopei-Chahar
Kuling
Lockjaw Claims Hocking Boy Kenneth Brooks
Nine year old Kenneth Brooks of Hocking died after a toe wound from a rusty wire in a creek bed became infected with lockjaw. He collapsed at Sheltering Arms Hospital on Saturday morning. Funeral services are set for Monday at 2:30 PM at The Plains M. E. Church with burial in The Plains Cemetery.
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Kenneth Brooks
Hocking
Sheltering Arms Hospital
Harrison Brooks
Lower Plains
Plains M. FE
Plains Cemetery
Pope Praises Chicago Cardinal in Vatican Audience
Pope Pius IX praised Cardinal Mundelein of Chicago during a public audience in Castel Gandolfo, framing him as a defender of the church. Mundelein had previously denounced Adolf Hitler, prompting protests from the Vatican and the U.S. State Department.
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Castel Gandolfo
Italy
U.P
Pius
Chicago
Cardinal Mundelein
Fuehrer
Adolf Hitler
Germany
Nazi Germany
Vatican
State Department
Loyalist claims Italian troops aid rebels on central front
Loyalist observers on Saturday said 15 000 to 20 000 Italian troops had arrived to reinforce the Nationalists near Madrid as the civil war's second year opened. They reported new nationalist reinforcements moving by train and road, while Loyalists pressed a major attack along the Toledo highway south of the capital, threatening Madrid on three fronts.
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Madrid
U.P
Toledo
Ciempozuelos
Madrid-Aranjuez
Girl Victim of Gallipolis Car Crash Is Critically Injured
Tharon Myers 16 of Gallipolis sustained a base skull fracture and facial injuries after a car left a road near Clipper Mill. Nancy Leaper 15 suffered multiple injuries and Jordan Wheeler 17 had minor cuts and shock. The trio had attended a Reese Park fish fry when a truck pass attempt led to a crash through a pole guy wire.
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Gallipolis
Tharon Myers
Carl Myers
Clipper Mill
Holzer Hospital
Nancy Leaper
Chester Leaper
Jordan Wheeler
Earl Wheeler
Reese Park
Kananga
Wheeler
Miss Myers
Tharon
Denver
Yellowstone Park
Parachute Writer Killed Jumping at Roosevelt Field
Leslie Fulenwider, 39, a newspaper syndicate feature writer, died Saturday while making a parachute jump at Roosevelt Field New York to describe his sensations for an article.
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Roosevelt Field
N. Y
U.P
Leslie Fulenwider
Bloody Spanish Revolution Tests War Lords Ground
A Madrid government collapse a year earlier led to insurgent officers seizing two thirds of Spain. The conflict costs Spain 350000 lives, 30000000000 pesetas in destruction, and 400000 troops still under arms. Neutral observers call Spain a testing ground for Europe’s new armaments and predict delays before future wars.
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Paris
AUP
Spanish
Morocco
Madrid
Spain
Europe
Russia
Germany
Italy
France
Love Captive Paid 3000 to Test Devotion in Los Angeles
Thomas Warner Jr, 22, son of a millionaire, paid 3000 for dictograph recordings to learn if Jean MacDonald loved him for money or for himself. Mrs Antibus, private detective, sues Warner and others after a raid on her home during the probe. The man listened as MacDonald said she loved him for who he is, not his money, ending the plan as he reunited with her.
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Los Angeles
U.P
Thomas Warner, Jr
Jean MacDonald
Young Warner
Thomas Warner
Pearl Antibus
Tommy
Jean
Mae West Seeks To Annul Longtime Marriage
Los Angeles report says Mae West plans to annul her 26 year marriage to Frank Wallace a vaudeville performer. Her attorney admitted the marriage in court Friday ending that phase of the case and withdrew Wests charge that Wallace had remarried in 1916.
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Los Angeles
U.P
Frank Wallace
Mae West
Wallace
Miss West
Marietta Linguist Dies. Rev. P. Foster at 84
The Rev. Edward P. Foster age 84 died in a local hospital after a week of illness. A 1874 Marietta College graduate, he spent 34 years developing the universal language Ro.
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Marietta
Edward P. Foster
Marietta College
Coshocton Youth Killed in Cincinnati Trip Incident
Robert Barrett, 22, of Coshocton, injured fatally early Saturday when the automobile he rode in struck a guard rail on the Batavia Pike about one mile west of New Town, Cincinnati.
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Coshocton
Cincinnati
Robert Barrett
Batavia Pike
Newtown
Choice of New Senate Head Linked to Bill
The Roosevelt judiciary reform plan has split the Democratic Party and the Senate faces a leadership vacancy after Joseph T. Robinson's death. New York City politics are also influenced as the New Deal factor shapes a forthcoming mayoral contest.
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Senate
Bill
Washington
U.P
Roosevelt
Democratic Party
Joseph T. Robinson
Robinson
New York City
New York
Funeral Train of Senate Leader Robinson in Athens
The funeral train of Senate Majority Leader Joseph T. Robinson passed through Athens at 9 46 Saturday morning. Crimson and white flowers decorated the rear car as 25 people gathered at the depot to glimpse the Diesel engine. The train was to return from the west Monday or Tuesday.
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Senate
Joseph T. Robinson
Athens
Court Bill Battle Sets Key Democratic Standoff in Senate
Democrats debate judiciary reorganization as Copeland leads opposition while Barkley, Harrison, and Roosevelts allies weigh tactics. The lineup hints at intra party rifts, patronage tensions, and potential punitive actions impacting 1940 elections.
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Roosevelt
Grover A. Whal
Copeland
Senate
Robinson
Senate Democrats
Alben W. Barkley
Barkley
Harrison
Congress
Clifford Townsend
Indiana
White House
Frederick van Nuys
James A. Farley
Muskingum Area Receives $1.6 Million PWA Grant
New Philadelphia UK A grant of 1.6 million dollars from the Public Works Administration was approved for the Muskingum Conservancy District to fund land purchases and flood control. Funds will be distributed through the U S Engineers Office in Zanesville.
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New Philadelphia
Public Works Administration
Muskingum Conservancy
United States Engineers
Zanesville
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Pope
C. E. Newton
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Dennie Kelly
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