Nation’s Primaries Underway in Maine and Minnesota
Maine voters faced two partisan tickets as Governor Barrows sought renomination amid a likely New Deal alignment with former Governor Brann campaigning for a Democratic gubernatorial nomination. In Minnesota, leaders monitored results as a major rail disaster in Montana dominated the news cycle with the Olympian wreck killing dozens and injuring many others.
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Portland
U.P
Maine
Lewis O. Barrows
Roy L. Fernald
Winterport
Louis J. Brann
Barrows
Brann
Vermont
Congress
James C. Oliver
Clyde H. Smith
Ralph O. Brewster
Oliver
William A. Holland Smith
Arthur B. Lancaster
Joseph W. Connelly
Harold B. Emery
F. Harold Dubord
Elizabeth Soucy
Laurence J. Walsh
Melvin P. Roberts
Garner Directed Shelving of Rail Bill in Congress
Vice President John N. Garner reportedly directed shelving of railroad aid legislation to avoid prolonging the session. Roosevelt proposed aid to distressed carriers as wage cuts by railroads sparked opposition from labor groups and debates over RFC authority and railroad control. Garner denied any presidential rivalry motive.
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U.P
John N. Garner
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Garner
RFC
Jesse H. Jones
Congress
Roosevelt
Labor
White House
Senate
Alben W. Barkley
House
Sam Rayburn
Worst Relief Crisis Faces Cleveland As Funds Run Short
Cleveland relief offices faced possible closure due to exhausted emergency funds feeding about 60 000 destitute families. Mayor Harold H Burton and the council weighed local options including a possible bus tax and other measures as state legislature stalled since May 16.
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Cleveland
WPR
Harold H. Burton
Council
Burton
Japan Issues New Warning From Foreign Minister Ugaki
General Kazu shige Ugaki issued a circular to foreign diplomats urging measures to safeguard nationals and property in China as hostilities may widen. A foreign ministry spokesman said the aim is to reduce danger to foreigners and prevent disputes from unexpected damage.
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TOKYO
U.P
Kazushige Ugaki
China
Ugaki
Japan
Foreign Office
Soviet push for definite Polish pledge to aid Czechoslovakia
Soviet Russia seeks a definite promise from Poland to come to Czechoslovakia's aid in case of war. Moscow officials and Warsaw diplomats reportedly discussed tying French Polish Czech and French Russian pacts into one agreement.
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Prague
Czechoslovakia
U.pi
Russia
Poland
Moscow
Warsaw
Mussolini Silent on End War Suggestion
A London source said Britain urged Mussolini to press General Franco for an early armistice in the Spanish war. Mussolini�s reaction to the suggestion had not been determined.
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Mussolini
London
Benito Mussolini
Francisco Franco
DeValera's Fianna Fail Wins Secure Irish Majority
Prime Minister Eamon de Valera's Fianna Fail party secured a clear majority in Ireland's parliament for the first time in six years without Laborite support. Election returns from Friday's general polls favored the government more than expected.
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Dublin
Eamon de Valera
Fianna Fail
Eire
Minnesota Primary Likely To Set Record Vote
Minnesotan voters flocked to polls to choose three party tickets for November. The Farmer Labor governor race between Elmer A Benson and Hjalmer Petersen dominates attention while Republicans expected to take over half the remaining vote. All nine incumbents seek re election and should secure renomination. five Farmer Labor, three Republicans, one Democrat.
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Minneapolis
Hjalmer Petersen
Ask Business To Cooperate In Recovery
Government officials urge business cooperation to speed the pump priming program for depression relief. Secretary Wallace and colleagues promise quick results from Congress funds and predict a swift upturn in business.
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Washington
Henry A. Wallace
Works Progress
Harry L. Hopkins
Howard Gray
U. S
Nathan Straus
John J. Klingman
U. S. Army Engineers
Congress
Union Recommends Highway Commission in Ohio Restructure
The Ohio State Highway Employees Union urged forming a six member bi partisan commission to run the Highway Department and remove the director post. The panel would serve 12 year terms and appoints the motor vehicles registrar, removing gubernatorial control.
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Columbus
U.P
Ohio State Highway Employes’ Union Today
Highway Department
Union
Registrar of Motor Vehicles
Teachers Federation Opposes Nazi Student Exchanges
State Federation of Teachers adopted a resolution opposing Nazi student and professor exchanges with U S schools. It called a special legislative session before the August primaries to address school financing problems. E Glenn Baxter of Elyria was named president.
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Columbus
U.P
Ohio State Federation of Teachers
United States
E. Glenn Baxter
Elyria
Presient
Young Farmer Held For Slaying of Wife
Cambridge reports Fred Brown a young Canadian-born farmer confessed to killing his 19 year old wife who was pregnant after a quarrel over a cat. The body was found by fishermen in the river bottom and identified by police after being brought to the surface.
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Custer Creek
Mont
Yellowestone Creek
Miles City
Ralph Bray
Custer County
Glendive
Olympian
Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad
Cambridge
U.P
Fred Brown
British Push Campaign To Prevent War
United Press reports Britain's drive led by Neville Chamberlain aimed at easing war danger from Nazi expansion. Plans to leverage Mussolini to push an armistice in Spain and revive Anglo Italian talks dominate diplomacy while Spain Loyalists counterattack near Castelion De La Plana and Hankow is pressured by Japanese forces. Germany's anti Semitic drive appears to cool though extended to Austria.
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United Press
Great Britain
Europe
Neville Chamberlain
Nazi Germany
Chamberlain
Spain
Britain
London
Italy
Mussolini
Francisco Franco
France
Mediterranean
Castellon de la Plana
Valencia
China
Hankow
Germany
Austria
Missing Clerk Returns Home in Kidnapping Case
Richard Evans Scioto County Clerk of Courts was found after a 15 day disappearance. Prosecutor Marvin A. Kelly said Evans was kidnapped and taken to New Orleans by two men who offered him a ride from Chesapeake Ohio to Huntington West Virginia. He was beaten robbed and dumped by a highway ditch ten miles from New Orleans. Evans reported receiving threatening letters and calls before the abduction.
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Portsmouth
U.P
Richard Evans
Scioto County
Marvin A. Kelly
Evans
New Orleans
Chesapeake
Huntington
W. Va
Price 76 Dies in Portland Home Graft Probe Moves Forward
George B. Price 76 dies after brief illness at his Portland home. Funeral plans not set. He leaves a wife Minnie E. Price a son Earl A. Price Hawthorne New York a daughter Elsa Webster Baytown Texas and a niece Lucy Scoville Portland. Pennsylvania Supreme Court refuses to halt Dauphin County grand jury graft and bribery probe into Gov George H Earle and other officials.
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George B. Price
Portland
Price
Minnie E. Price
Earl A. Price
Hawthorne
N. Y
Elsa Webster
Baytown
Texas
Lucy Scoville
Philadelphia
U.P
Pennsylvania Supreme Court
Dauphin County
Grand Jury
George H. Earle
Earle
Socialist Party of Ohio Names Candidates
Columbus Ohio The Socialist Party of Ohio selects a slate of candidates to submit to voters this fall if 30 000 nominating petition signatures are gathered.
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Columbus
U.P
Socialist Party of Ohio Today
Few Veterans on Hand at 72nd G A R State Encampment
Only a score of Civil War veterans attended the 72nd state encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic in Columbus. All attendees were over 90 years old.
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Columbus
Grand Army of the Republic
Midget Seeks Divorce From Giant Bouncer
Hollywood reports Billy Curtis the world s handsomest midget plans divorce from Lois DeFee the six foot four bouncer weighing about 199 pounds Curtis says she treated him like a doll and he will file for incompatibility grounds this week He is three feet eleven inches tall and stars in a midget western while DeFee travels to Reno for her own divorce proceedings
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Hollywood
U.P
Billy Curtis
Lois DeFee
Curtis
Reno
Miami
Fla
Star in Film Facing Court in Newark Trial
Edward Holle, a film star and husband awaiting a child, sits in Newark court as lawyers argue to admit a film reenacting the murder of his former sweetheart Sophie Kujat. Kujat's body was tied with rope and chained before being sunk in the Passaic River. Holle had been convicted the previous Saturday.
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Sophie Kujat
Edward Holle
Newark
N. J
Passiac
Holle
Man Kills Wife and Shoots Self on Street Car
Clarence W. Wolff 56 killed his wife Jessie 39 and wounded himself on a crowded Dayton street car after a dispute. Police said the couple had been separated for about four weeks and that the shooting followed marital difficulties. He parked his car, boarded the street car, paid fare, then fired a shot at his wife and another at himself.
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Dayton
U.R
Clarence W. Wolff
Jessie Wolff
Mrs. Hahn's Appeal Reaches U S Supreme Court
The Ohio Supreme Court forwarded 1 200 pages of testimony in the Anna Marie Hahn case to the U S Supreme Court. The high court will decide whether to admit review of the Cincinnati poison slayer's death sentence. A decision is not expected before October due to summer recess.
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Columbus
U.P
Anna Marie Hahn
U. S. Supreme Court
Ohio Supreme Court
U. S. Court
Cincinnati
American Steamer Wisconsin Hit By Nationalist Bombs
Nationalist airplanes bomb Barcelona in two attacks dropping 20 bombs then swept southward along the Loyalist coast. Incendiaries caused heavy damage and 30 to 40 deaths. The American steamer Wisconsin was struck.
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Barcelona
Mediterranean
Wisconsin
Pan American Flight Missing Over Peru Chile Route
Pan American Airways said a plane carrying three crew and one passenger disappeared on a Lima Peru to Arica Chile flight. Officials reported the loss and initiated search efforts. The incident prompted a search across the Andes region.
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Santiago
Pan-American Airways
Lima
Peru
Arica
Chile
Tragic Sleep Pill Overdose Ends Couple's Lives
William T. Douglas, 45, an unemployed newspaperman, and his wife Zoe, 43, died in Cleveland after overdosing on sleeping potions in a shared fatal act.
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Cleveland
U.P
William T. Douglas
Zoe
In-Law Shooting and Self-immolation Reported in Tiffin
Despondent over a monthly pension of seven dollars Carl Kisor aged 65 shot Harold Fritz 38 as he worked on a radio in Kisor home living room. He then locked himself in a chicken brooder house saturated with gasoline and set it afire. Fritz was taken to a hospital in serious condition. Kisor died in the blaze.
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Tiffin
U.P
Carl Kisor
Harold Fritz
Kisor
Fritz
Two More Freed In Harlan Coal Conspiracy Trial
London Ky U P two more defendants were eliminated today from the dwindling number on trial in the Harlan coal conspiracy case Just before the defense opened its case today the government counsel dismissed the indictment against the Three Point Coal Co and its superintendent Elmer D All The defense prepared to present its case
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Harlan County
London
U.P
Harlan
Three Point Coal Co
Elmer Dall
Officer and Physician Die in Plane Crash Near Fletcher
Authorities opened an investigation into a Saturday crash of an army observation plane near Fletcher North Carolina that killed U S Army Lieutenant Sam Stevens of Chanute Field and Dr. David M Buck of Asheville.
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Fletcher
N. C
U. S
Army
Sam Stevens
Chanute Field
Lil
David M. Buck
Asheville
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