Barkley Leads Fight As Lending Bill Faces Tax Clash
In Washington, Senate Majority Leader Barkley supports the lending bill while opposing a tax exemption clash on government securities used to finance it. Senator Byrd proposes taxing the securities, arguing funds could compete with private business. House action stalls housing authority funding, with fights over federal state project competition and a $350 million public works program.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Senate
Alben W. Barkley
Harry F. Byrd
Byrd
House
House Rules Committee
Adolph Sabbath
Rules Committee
Alva B. Adams
Colo
Robert F. Wagner
N. Y
Senate Banking and Currency Committee
Francis T. Maloney
Conn
Joe Starnes
Ala
Hold Couple Pending Woman's Death Probe
Benton Illinois police held George Gore Jr. 32 and his wife Kathryn 26 in technical custody as investigators probe the death of Nancy Gore 45. Nancy Gore, wife of a prominent surgeon, was shot on a porch while she and her husband Dr. George Gore 65 slept Sunday.
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Benton, Ill
U.P
George Gore, Jr
Kathryn
Nancy Gore
Southern Illinois
Missouri
Gore
George Gore
Confessions Trace Four Columbus Robberies
Police report Charles Doughty and Joseph Turner both of Columbus confessed to four recent store robberies totaling 647 dollars.
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Columbus
U.P
Charles Doughty
Joseph Turner
Donahey Quits Permanently
U S Senator Vic Donahey said he does not want another term and will retire from politics. He left Washington for his Indian Lake home after a Columbus visit and plans a grass roots survey of Ohio sentiment before deciding on his future.
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Columbus
U.P
U. S
Vic Donahey
Indian Lake
Donahey
Washington
Ohio
Runaway Separator Causes Farmer's Death
Bellevue U P Earl Shaf ferty a Green Springs farmer was found dead on Route 101 yesterday the victim of a runaway separator machine that became disconnected from a tractor on a downgrade
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Bellevue
U.P
Earl Shafferty
Green Springs
Two Escape Injury as Auto Falls Into Creek
Edith Edwards of Scio drove into a 50 foot iron bridge near Adena last night. The bridge toppled into the creek with the car. Anna George and Sue George of Dillonvale escaped serious injury. Loss of the bridge was estimated at 10 000 dollars.
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CADIZ
A.P
Edith Edwards
Scio
Adena
Anna George
Sue George
Dillonvale
Train Youth Dies After Freight Crash Near Lancaster
Luther Carroll 17, of Gallipolis, died in a Lancaster hospital from injuries after a freight train struck him at Thurston while hitchhiking home from a CCC camp in Idaho. He had walked 12 miles and slept on the tracks, losing blood after his left leg was amputated and sustaining internal injuries.
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Lancaster
U.P
Luther Carroll
Gallipolis
CCC
Idaho
Thurston
Carroll
Young Peruvi an girl Lina Medina and her baby boy
Five year old Lina Medina gave birth to a boy on May 14 at a Maternity Hospital in Lima. The infant Gerardo Alejandro Medina weighed 5.94 pounds at birth and 10.12 pounds today. he is 21 1/2 inches tall now. Lina remains small yet healthy weighing 63 1/4 pounds and three feet eight inches tall. A government commission considers options to move them to the United States, while Lina adapts to motherhood and daily life.
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Lima
Peru
U.P
Lina Medina
Maternity Hospital
Lina
United Press
Gerardo Alejandro Medina
Pisco
United States
European Powers View Japan Steps Stir Anger in Washington
U S officials warn parallel British policy may clash with American stance as Britain recognizes Japans special position in China. Hull says Japan bears responsibility for damage to American property and injuries to Americans amid rising incidents in China. Diplomatic protests continue but apologies seen as insufficient to curb violence.
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Washington
Far East
Britain
Japan
China
Cordell Hull
Hull
Electrician killed at Carbondale mine
Oliver Pat Stalling a 52 year old electrician at Carbondale Coal Co mine was electrocuted after work when his neck touched a live trolley wire while adjusting brakes on a mine motor. Coroner ruled accidental death. funeral arrangements are pending. He left a wife and eight children.
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Nelsonville
Oliver
Pat) Stalling
Carbondale Coal Co
Carbondale
A. L. Pritchard
Stalling
White Ash
Bailey Run
Deanville
Sunday Creek Coal Co
Organizing Drive Announced Against Little Steel Firms
CHICAGO United Press report says the Steel Workers Organizing Committee will launch an aggressive campaign to organize Bethlehem Steel workers and its Little Steel group. Philip Murray SWOC chair notes they will seek legal recourse and do not expect a strike, as 125 regional directors plan the drive.
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Chicago
U.P
Steel Workers Organizing Committee
Congress of Industrial Organizations
Bethlehem Steel Corporation
Little Steel
Kown
Little Steel” Group
Republic Steel
American Rolling Mill
Youngstown Sheet & Tube
Inland Steel
Philip Murray
SWOC
Battle over socialized medicine rages in San Francisco
Dr Lucy Stone Hert208 of Chardon Ohio tells delegates that leaders push socialized medicine under humanitarian guise. She labels the Wagner National Health Bill a threat doubling public debt and failing to coordinate agencies or protect private practice.
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San Francisco
U.P
Lucy Stone Hert
Chardon
Ohio
Agriculture Department Eyes Broad Market for Farm Surplus
Washington officials announced a rapid expansion of home markets for farm surpluses to match subsidized exports of wheat and cotton. The plan aims to extend the surplus food stamp distribution to more than 20 million relief recipients in 100 to 150 major cities by next spring.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Department
Roosevelt to tour West Coast in September plans
President Roosevelt announced a rapid trip to San Francisco and Seattle scheduled for late September after the North Atlantic coast cruise begins soon following Congress adjournment. The Muskigum County Grand Jury yesterday ignored the April 27 Reidler Brothers coal mine incident at Otsego in which a union miner was killed.
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West Coast
Hyde Park
N. Y
U.P
Roosevelt
San Francisco
Seattle
North Atlantic
Zanesville
Boy 12 Killed in Columbus Crash
A collision between an automobile and a Columbus fire department inhalator truck killed Robert Dean, 12, and he died in a hospital last night.
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Columbus
U.P
Robert Dean
Bricker Denies Run for Presidential Nomination
Governor John W. Bricker rejected reports he planned to withdraw from the Ohio favorite son bid or pursue the Republican presidential nomination. He said no one should assume he is a candidate and he will continue in his current role.
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Columbus
U.P
John W. Bricker
Bricker
State House
U.S
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
Arab Carries Farewell Meal to Missionary
An Arab emissary delivered a package of American food to Gerould R. Goldner in Jerusalem for a planned farewell meal with his Arab captors before his release. A dawn delivery was hoped in exchange for a $2,500 ransom.
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Jerusalem
Gerould R. Goldner
Akron
Goldner
England To Aid Polish In Purchasing Arms
London reports the government will guarantee export credits to Poland up to 40 million dollars to help the Polish government buy defense materials in Great Britain. Sir John Simon announced the measure in the House of Commons.
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England
London
U.P
Poland
Great Britain
John Simon
House of Commons
Wheat Prices Not Expected To Show Gain
The Bureau of Agricultural Economics warned of continued low world wheat prices for the coming year. With foreign markets slipping and Liverpool quotations at record lows, world supplies for the year starting July 1, 1939 are seen at 5.29 billion bushels, 120 million above last year’s peak. Production is placed at 4.09 billion bushels with a July 1 carryover near 1.2 billion. the 1939 crop yield may be 480 million bushels below 1938, offset by a 600 million carryover increase.
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Washington
U.P
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Liverpool
Bureau
Coughlin Invited to Round Table Suggestion
Reverend Walton E. Cole of Toledo urged anti Coughlin opponents to invite the priest to a round table discussion. He suggested Coughlin speak publicly instead of being confined to broadcasting booths and his shrine.
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Coughlin
Round
Detroit
Walton E. Cole
Toledo
Charles E. Coughlin
Cole
World powers show widened war drills amid China and Japan tensions
International fears rise as Kuznetsov claims Soviet submarine supremacy and Franco Spain unrest continues. Britain seeks a Soviet mutual aid pact while Japan pressures China and blocks Hong Kong approaches. Italian fleet maneuvers join German American fears over oil Sakhalin.
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France
Louis Bleriot
Channel
Baltic
Berlin
Rhodes
Mediterranean
Italy
Neville Chamberlain
R. S. Hudson
Adolf Hitler
Britain
Japan
China
South China
Canton
Shameen
Hong Kong
London
Great Britain
Russia
Sakhalin Island
Moscow
Tokyo
Paris
Spain
Francisco Franco
Witnesses Testify in Will Rogers Memorial Lottery Probe
Boston U S Owen D Young named among 100 witnesses in a federal grand jury investigation of a 20 million dollar nationwide fake lottery syndicate. Investigators say the scheme claimed Will Rogers Memorial Fund as a beneficiary though Rogers family reportedly did not authorize any lottery. Indictments expected against about 70 prominent gambling and sporting figures.
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Boston
U.S
Owen D. Young
New York
Wit Rogers Memorial Commission
Will Rogers
Rogers
Young
Memorial Commission
U. S
Edmund J. Brandon
Drought Grips Eastern States Across Nine States
A drought persisted across nine eastern states with no rain in sight. Intermittent thundershowers occurred in spots Monday night but failed to relieve the parched ground. The Weather Bureau predicted generally fair weather without rain this week as temperatures rose to the upper 80s in New York.
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New York
Weather Bureau
FBI Reopens Territorial Offices To Fight Spies
The FBI announced it has reopened offices in Alaska Hawaii and Puerto Rico due to increased espionage. The move aims to strengthen counterintelligence operations across territories and boost local investigative capacity.
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FBI
Washington
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Alaska
Hawaii
Puerto Rico
Cotton Planter's Memory Fails Him But His Servant Stays Car
J P Phillips a cotton planter of Anson County arrives in Raleigh and leaves his car with his servant Eugene Marsh while he attends a cotton ginners meeting. Marsh stays in the car through rain hunger and days until police locate the pair and return the vehicle. Phillips expresses renewed faith in human nature.
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Raleigh
N. C
J. P. Phillips
Anson County
Eugene Marsh
Marsh
Phillips
Cotton Ginners
Eugene
Oomph Girl Says Charges Ridiculous In Alimony Fight
Hollywood jetsetter Ann Sheridan known as the Oomph Girl reacts to news that editor Frank D. Dewar faces accusations of misusing funds owed to his ex wife. Dewar earns $100 weekly trimming films and is $335 in arrears on alimony payments, Zelma his former wife asserts in a superior court affidavit.
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Hollywood
Ann Sheridan
Frank D. Dewar
Wrse
Zelma
Dewar
Keynapers Raid Front Doors in Nova Scotia
Halifax police warn of a new crime called keynaping in which young offenders search residential areas at night for keys left in doors, steal the keys, and leave ransom notes demanding minor sums for their return. The racket yields about 50 cents to a dollar per operation.
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Halifax
N. S
U.P
Woman Killed as Auto Hits Highway Scraper
Oberlin report states Mrs. Clarence Hemoker of Delphos died at Allen Hospital after an auto struck the rear of a state highway scraper causing fatal injuries.
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Oberlin
U.P
Clarence Hemeker
Delphos
Allen Hospital
Roosevelt Returns to Capital for Congressional Windup
President Roosevelt arrived in Washington to oversee the final closing sessions as Congress winds toward adjournment. He is expected to discuss key legislative actions and outline proposals during the closing days.
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Washington
U.R
Roosevelt
Congress
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