Poland weighs protectorate over Danzig as tensions rise
Warsaw reports discuss possible Polish protectorate over Danzig citing Germany's Czechoslovakia move. Officials warn of tougher stance toward Germany while frontiers are bolstered. Britons warn that force over Danzig or the Corridor could trigger a wider war. Bucharest pledges defense of territorial rights.
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Warsaw
Poland
Danzig
Germany
Czechoslovakia
Adolf Hitler
Iskra
Hitler
Czech
Bohemia and Moravia
Memel Grab
Gazeta Polska
Memel
Baltic
Josef Beck
London
Europe
Great Britain
France
Bucharest
Britain
Soviet
Russia
Armand Calinescu
Romania
Bright Comet Shines In West Each Night
Cleveland scientist Dr Nassau says the brilliant western object seen nightly since April 16 is a new comet. He notes it is not as bright as Halley in 1910 but visible to the naked eye with field glasses.
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Cleveland
U.P
Halley
J. J. Nassau
Case School of Applied Science
Rubber Firm To Build New Tennessee Plant
B F Goodrich Rubber Co plans a 1.5 million dollar plant at Clarksville Tennessee on a 40 acre site bought by the city with a 60000 dollar bond issue for industrial purposes. The single story steel facility would house the heel and sole division now in Watertown Massachusetts.
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Akron
U.P
B. F. Goodrich Rubber Co
Clarksville
Tenn
Goodrich
Watertown
Mass
Ohio Employment Rises in March Reported by OSU Bureau
Ohio March employment figures rose two percent from February and four percent from March 1938, per OSU bureau of business research. Manufacturing jobs up one percent from January and five percent from last year. Non manufacturing employment also ahead of February 1939 and March 1938.
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Columbus
WUP
Ohio
Ohio State University
Bureau of Business Research
Ex Mayor Sexauer Dies at 68 in Lancaster Burial Set
Christopher M. Sexauer former Lancaster mayor from 1908 to 1914 dies of heart disease at age 68. He will be buried Wednesday with services pending.
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Lancaster
Christopher M. Sexauer
Bandit Quartet Captured in West Virginia
Four suspected gang members linked to machine gun holdups across Ohio, Kentucky, and Pennsylvania were captured in Wheeling. Detained are William Montgomery of Pittsburgh, James Mulan, a Bloomfield boxer, James Borne of Detroit, and Billie Love, once from Marshall, Ohio. Police say the group used Love as a shield during a Neosho Missouri jail break. Guns including a Thompson submachine gun were seized. Ohio Patrols link them to a Columbus beer garden robbery, a Steubenville car theft, and robberies in Quaker City and Zanesville.
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Wheeling
W. Va
Ohio
Kentucky
Pennsylvania
Elmer Hehr
William Montgomery
Pittsburgh
James Mulane
Bloomfield
N. J
James Borne
Detroit
Billie Love
Marshall
Missouri
Neosho
U. S
Columbus
Steubenville
Quaker City
Zanesville
Roper Named U S Minister to Canada in Canada
President Roosevelt nominated Daniel C. Roper former Commerce Secretary to be United States minister to Canada. The envoy post has been vacant since Norman Armour moved to Chile. Roper resigned as commerce secretary in December and is replaced by Harry L. Hopkins.
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Washington
U.S
Roosevelt
Commerce
Daniel C. Roper
United States
Canada
Senate
Roper
U. S
Norman Armour
Chile
Works Progress
Harry L. Hopkins
Nervous Disease Germ Carried by Gray Mice
The U S Public Health Service announced the common gray house mouse carries the germ causing lymphocytic choriomeningitis. Active virus found in three of five mice trapped in two homes where choriomeningitis cases appeared.
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Washington
U.P
U. S. Public Health Service Today
Meigs County Fund Transfer Denied for 1938 Fair Support
Meigs County Auditor will be denied the certificate to transfer county funds to the Meigs County Agricultural Society for the 1938 county fair. State director John I. Brown said six taxpayers proved society officers issued unnumbered membership certificates, upholding the complaint after a hearing on April 21.
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Columbus
U.P
Meigs County
Meigs County Agricultural Society
John I. Brown
Brown
Woodard hearing opens on Ohio Penitentiary warden case
Civil service hearing for James C. Woodard, Ohio Penitentiary warden, opens before Commissioners Carl Smith and Ralph Emmons in Columbus. Testimony likely delayed to next week as both sides seek continuance and argue a motion for more detail on the 22 charges in the removal order.
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Columbus
James C. Woodard
Ohio Penitentiary
Carl Smith
Ralph Emmons
Woodard
Last of Barrow Boys Injured in Auto Crash
L. C. Barrow, 25, the last survivor of the Barrow brothers, lay near death in Dallas today from injuries after fleeing a collision. His car struck another vehicle on the outskirts of Dallas, overturned in the chase, ending the brothers’ infamous run after Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker were killed in Arcadia, Louisiana. Buck—ane?—was killed by a posse in Own.
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Dallas
Tex
L. C. Barrow
Barrow Brothers
Barrow
Clyde Barrow
Bonnie Parker
Arcadia
Buckane
One Time Bootleggers Convicted of Forgery
Chicago jurors found George Bugs Moran and Francis Frankie Parker guilty of conspiracy to forge and pass $62,000 in American Express Travelers checks. The verdict stems from a forged travelers checks case tied to their prohibition era gangland prominence.
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Chicago
George
Bugs) Moran
Francis J
Frankie) Parker
American Express Company
Roosevelt's Fair Speech Sets Peace Goal for U S
Roosevelt proclaims the World’s Fair wagon is hitched to a star of peace and goodwill. Crown Prince Olav and Crown Princess Martha of Norway to receive a 21 gun salute upon arrival and dedicate the Norwegian building. Danish pavilion opening planned for tomorrow with Crown Prince Frederik and Princess Ingrid.
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Poughkeepsie
N. Y
Hyde Park
Crown Prince
Princess of
Norway
Roosevelt
Martha
Prince Olav
New York
U.P
New Haven
Conn
Adolf Hitler
Atlantic
Olav
Crown Princess
Grover A. Whalen
The
Fair Corporation
Court of Peace
Edward J. Flynn
Frederik
Ingrid of
Denmark
UMWA Negotiations Aim To Beat Lewis Strike Deadline
United Mine Workers and Appalachian soft coal operators resume talks after six weeks deadlock with little hope of a quick agreement. John R. Steelman hopes to clinch a deal before Thursday, while Lewis threatens a miners strike if unresolved. The policy committee plans to meet to act on Lewis order.
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New York
U.P
United Mine Workers of America
Appalachian
John R. Steelman
United States Conciliation Service
John L. Lewis
UMWA
Steelman
Chamber of Commerce Opens 27th Annual Meeting
The United States Chamber of Commerce opened its 27th annual meeting in Washington. The opening session focused on organization and awards while the group called for an end to New Deal spending and a shift of funds into private investment. The main objective was to find what is holding business back and a practical recovery plan.
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Washington
U.P
Chamber of Commerce of the
United States
Chamber
Indicted Death Syndicate Leader Surrenders in Philadelphia
Morris Bolber described as the directing head of Philadelphia poison merchants of death syndicate surrendered to police. He is the first of four ring leaders named in warrants to be arrested, with Rose Carina still at large. Authorities had predicted an imminent major arrest.
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Philadelphia
U.P
Morris
Louis
Bolber
Murderer of Spinster Sentenced to Life in Dover
John Henry Howland, 26, an Ohio State prison parolee, pleaded guilty to second degree murder in Superior Court and received life imprisonment for the slaying of an elderly Milton spinster. His 15 year old cousin Aida Butler, who fled with him to Texas, likely faces delinquency charges later in court.
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Dover
N. H
U.P
John Henry Howland
Ohio
Milton
Aida Butller
Texas
Mrs Maryon McCarter Dies Former Society Beauty
Mrs Maryon Cooper Hewitt McCarter a former society beauty and once indicted in 1936 in San Francisco on sterilization charges for her daughter died yesterday in New York. The case drew wide public attention and linked her to high society circles across the country.
Relief Financing Problem Ties Up Appropriation Bill
Columbus legislators reopen session as they seek passage of a 317.9 million biennial appropriation while unresolved local relief financing looms. A Senate subcommittee ponders borrowing local highway funds and diverting license tag revenue, with a relief program administration report expected tonight.
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Columbus
House
Senate
Joint Relief Committee
Tax
Board of Appeals
Tax Commission
Five Die As Freight Train Wreck Near Pittsburgh
A Pennsylvania freight train derailed after passing an open switch near Pittsburgh killing five railroad workers and injuring three others. The two locomotives and 36 cars plowed through the switch and officials from the railroad and Allegheny County coroner’s office opened a probe. Victims include engineers Edward Feeney Daniel Lingafeliter and Charles Rine, fireman David Conroy, and conductor Thomas Ramsour.
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Pittsburgh
U.P
Pennsylvania
Here
Allegheny County
Edward F. Feeney
Columbus
Daniel H. Lingafeliter
Uhrichsville
Charles Edgar Rine
Dennison
David R. Conroy
Thomas E. Ramsour
Severe quake devastates Akita and causes fires in Funakoshima
A strong earthquake struck Akita prefecture with shattered store windows in Funakoshima and fires raging as damage estimates could not be obtained. Initial reports cited destruction in Canosa Pass and noted the event as a seven-vertical quake akin to the 1923 disaster. Meanwhile tremors were recorded at John Carroll University between 10:25 p m Saturday and 12:15 a m Sunday.
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Tokyo
AUP
Akita
Funakoshima
Canosa Pass
Cleveland
U.P
John Carroll University
Attempt To Race Train To Crossing Tragedy
Authorities believe a motorist tried to outspeed an inter urban electric train to a crossing and caused an crash that killed six. The Pacific electric train, returning from Santa Catalina Island, struck an automobile driven by Vincent Loretto, 35, near Compton.
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Los Angeles
1U.P
Pacific
Santa Catalina Island
Vincent Loretto
Compton
National Guard Watches Coal District After Miner Death
Ohio National Guard kept an observer in Eastern Ohio coal area after last week's violence left one man dead and several injured. No further disturbances were reported as Sheriff Wayne Host of Tuscarawas County met with miners union leaders to deter a protest at Otsego, Ohio.
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Columbus
Ohio National Guard
Ohio
Gilson Light
Emil F. Marx
Wayne T. Host
Tuscarawas County
Otsego
Puerto Rico Named New Isolated Military Department
The War Department creates a separate Puerto Rico department to defend the Caribbean and Atlantic approaches to the canal. An air base will be built and Brig. Gen. Edmund L. Daley will command with HQ at San Juan, effective July 1.
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Washington
U.P
War Department
Puerto Rico
Panama Canal Zone
Caribbean
Canal
Harry H. Woodring
Roosevelt
Edmund L. Daley
San Juan
Daley
Boston
First Coast Artillery District
Pendergast Denies Tax Evasion Charge In KC Court
Thomas J. Pendergast appeared in federal court and pleaded innocent to income tax evasion. He faced a second indictment as part of Kansas City’s broad municipal cleanup. Judge Otis set the case for June 12. R. Emmett O'Malley also pleaded innocent to a related charge.
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Kansas City
Thomas J. Pendergast
Pendergast
Otis
R. Emmett O'Malley
Cash and Carry Neutrality Provisions Die Tonight
The cash and carry provisions of the neutrality act expire at midnight tonight. Congress and the President must agree on foreign policy to implement changes. The 1937 neutrality statute faces renewed discussion as the cash and carry clause ends and satisfaction remains limited.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
U.P
Congress
Britain fortifies Alderney to close Channel to enemy ships
Britain is converting Alderney in the Channel Islands into a Gibraltar like fortress. The air ministry reportedly controls about one fifth of the island with consent of its 1,100 residents and has completed air force base arrangements.
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London
U.P
Great Britain
Alderney
Channel Islands
Gibraltar
English Channel
Air Ministry
Arsenic murder ring suspect still at large in Philadelphia case
Police label Rose Carina the girl with the kiss of death as the sole fugitive in the arsenic murder ring saga in Philadelphia. Morris Bolber, alleged head of the group, surrendered today as investigators pursue the remaining clues.
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Rose Carina
Philadelphia
Morris Bolber
Russia Ready To Fight In Major War Warns Army Leader
Moscow reports that Red Army war commissar Klementi Voroshilov pledged readiness for a major war in a May Day speech. Thousands marched Red Square with 264 tanks 720 airplanes and about 1.5 million people observed. The Communist International urged British French and American Communists to back their governments against aggression.
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Moscow
A.P
Russia
Red Army
Klementi Voroshilov
Red Square
Voroshilov
Communist International
Russians Reach Soviet Building at World’s Fair
Brig. Gen. Vladimir Kokkinaki and Major Mikhail Gordienko, who crashed off New Brunswick during a non-stop Russia to New York flight, arrived at Floyd Bennett Field in a rescue plane. They were ferried from Moncton after being taken from Miscou Island. their plane remains on the crash site to be dismantled and shipped to Russia.
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New York
U.P
Vladimir Kokkinaki
Mikhail Gordienko
New Brunswick
Russia
Floyd Bennett Field
Harold S. Vanderbilt
Moncton
N. B
Miscou Island
National PTA Congress Opens in Cincinnati
Mrs. J. K. Pettengill of Detroit opened the National Congress of Parents and Teachers convention in Cincinnati. She explained the gathering centers on the second phase of the American trilogy Life liberty and the pursuit of happiness as the theme.
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Cincinnati
J. K. Pettengill
Detroit
National Congress of Parents and Teachers
Southern Bishop Balks At Methodist Unification
Bishop Collins Denny of Richmond declares he will serve only under the jurisdiction of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South and will not join the proposed nationwide unification. He predicts the southern church will stay separate, and his protest letter will be considered at the first general conference of the united church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond
U.P
Collins Denny
Uniting Conference
Methodist Episcopal Church, South
Kansas City
United States
Denny
Ian
Newly-United Church
Methodist Church
Methodist Episcopal Church
South
AFL Chief Calls for Abolition of Labor Board
Washington (UP) AFL President William Green urged scrapping the National Labor Relations Board and replacing it with a five member body with limited powers. He testified before the Senate education and labor committee opposing Burke manly amendments and charging bias toward CIO.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Green
National Labor Board
Washington
William Green
American Federation of Labor Today
National Labor Relations Board
Senate Education and Labor Committee
Labor Board
Congress of Industrial Organizations
William M. Leiserson
National Mediation Board
Edwin S. Smith
CIO
Donald Wakefield Smith
Leiserson
Smith
AFL
Lewis
John L. Lewis
Edward R. Burke
Neb
Rufus C. Hofman
Ore
Clare Hoffman
Mich
U. S. Chamber of Commerce
National Association of Manufacturers
Labor
Inc
Germany Urges Italy to Build War Reserves
Rome dispatch reports Germany urged Italy to boost war reserve stocks. Much of Italy’s new military appropriations would go to restocking arsenals and oil and coal reserves after a conference between Gen Walter Von Brauchitsch and Benito Mussolini. In Columbus, Dr Eli G Alcorn aged 94, a long time eye specialist, died.
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Rome
U.P
Germany
Italy
Walter von Brauchitsch
Benito Mussolini
Columbus
Eli G. Alcorn
Gallipolis
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