Chamberlain Credits Italy Pact With Avert War
Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain told the House of Commons that Britain's friendship pact with Italy helped prevent war. He cited Count Galeazzo Ciano's oral assurance to Lord Perth that Italy would not disrupt Palestine administration, while saying Britain does not condone Italy’s Ethiopian conquest.
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London
U.P
Great Britain
Neville Chamberlain
House of Commons
Chamberlain
Italy
Britain
Galeazzo Ciano
Lord Perth
Palestine
League Council
Ethiopia
Abyssinia
Dean Noe Delivers Sermon After Experimental Fast
The Rev. Israel H. Noe, Episcopal clergyman, preached his first sermon since a three month hospital stay in Memphis after a self imposed fast. He did not reference the fast but urged discipline of the body as path to spiritual attainment.
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Beaufort
N. C
Israel H. Noe
Memphis
Tenn
In Step With the Times Ad Appeal
The notice promotes Messenger Want Ads as a quick way to reach results in fast paced times. It urges readers to phone or place a Last Ad for rentals or sales, promising effective outcomes like those in prior ads.
Lost white wirehaired terrier puppy with black tan markings
Female terrier puppy described as white with black and tan markings vanished last Monday evening. Reward offered by David Reeder contact dial 876 for details.
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David Reeder
Dial 876
Seat in Congress Is Worker’s Aim
Lawrence Smith says WPA workers near the zoo duck pond plan his run for Congress. He explains the group favors a humane WPA, real jobs and wages, and relief with a $100 monthly pay, with neutrality on foreign policy and unions.
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ST. Louis
Lawrence Smith
Zoo
WPA
Congress
A. F. of L
CIO
Actress Simone Simon Witness Stand in Checks Case
Hollywood report says Simone Simon French actress faces cross examination by defense lawyers in a suit involving Sandra Martin charged with raising checks to the actress. Martin, former secretary to Miss Simon, allegedly appropriated about $23 000 of the actress funds during a European vacation last summer.
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Hollywood
WUP
Simone Simon
Sandra Martin
Miss Simon
Miss Martin
Texas Checks Doctor's Past
State investigators began a systematic check of Dr. Roman Trotsky's recent activities. Trotsky, jailed on wife desertion charges and tied to the slayings of Mrs. Weston G. Frome and her daughter Nancy, is under scrutiny as A. L. Barr, senior crime investigator, checks hotels in Texas towns where he reportedly stayed after leaving El Paso on March 29, the day before the deaths.
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San Angelo
Tex
Tu.p
Roman Trotsky
Weston G. Frome
Nancy
A. L. Barr
State Safety Department
Texas
Trotsky
el Paso
Final Vote Near On Naval Expansion Bill
Washington leaders push Roosevelt naval expansion bill toward passage under limited Senate debate. The measure authorizes building 135000 tons of battleships and 43 other combat ships in a 10 year program with a final vote expected today or Tuesday.
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Washington
U.P
Roosevelt
Senate
Robert Mann Dead Editor and Publisher Associate Dies
New Canaan Connecticut reports the death of Robert S. Mann, longtime associate editor of Editor and Publisher and editor of Wade Magazine, who died on Sunday. The obituary notes his prominent role in the newspaper industry and his contributions to trade journalism.
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Robert Mann
New Canaan
Conn
Tobacco Crop Limitations Hit Small Farmers
Gallia County farmers voice alarm as federal crop allotments threaten small growers. The dispute centers on tobacco, a major local cash crop, with many families relying on its December sale for taxes, clothing, rent, fuel, and groceries while small acreages are deemed negligible by the national administration.
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Gallipolis
Starbuck
Vance Brumfield
Anderson Robinson
W. E. Slagle
Gallia County
National Farm Administration
Freedom for Business Plea Opens Chamber Meeting
John W. O Leary, chairman of the executive committee of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, opened the 26th annual meeting with a call for freedom of business from government supervision. He argued NRA experience showed government control hampers progress and urged cutting the $13.5 billion annual tax load.
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Washington
John W. O'Leary
Chamber of Commerce of the United States
NRA
Chamber
Akron Bread Supply Hit By Union Strike
A strike by the Bakery Drivers' Union shut off Akron's bread supply. The walkout began Sunday over vacation benefits for union members and higher pay for four salesmen. About 1,500 workers were idle due to the stoppage.
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Akron
U.P
Bricker Announces Speech Tour Dates Including Logan
Republican candidate John W. Bricker announced a series of speaking engagements for his gubernatorial campaign. The schedule includes a stop in Logan on May 14 as part of the Ohio tour coordinated by the state headquarters.
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Bricker
Logan
Columbus
John W. Bricker
LaGuardia Urges Permanent Recovery Committee
New York Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia told a House appropriations subcommittee a permanent recovery committee of about 15 members should be formed to study summer programs and draft a bill for October. He endorsed President Roosevelt's 4.512 billion lending plan, saying it could activate many pending PWA projects and aid cities if conditions are met.
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Washington
Fiorello H. LaGuardia
New York
House
LaGuardia
Roosevelt
Meg
PWA
William Green
American Federation of Labor
Appropriations
Ways and Means
Agriculture
Rebels Predict Prolonged War Across Mediterranean Coast
Spanish Nationalist leaders predicted the war would last many more months. They named the Mediterranean coast provinces Gerona Catalonia Tarragona Castellon and Valencia as the war’s final phase, noting duration hinges on Loyalist material and human reserves.
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Vinaroz
Spain
U.P
Mediterranean
Gerona
Catalonia
Tarragon
Castellon
Valencia
Anna Hahn Faces Execution With Fear For Son
Columbus Ohio Anna Marie Hahn the first woman to die in the electric chair in Ohio spoke to reporters before her scheduled execution on Wednesday night She said she fears the death will be a stain on her 12 year old son Oscar and affirmed her guilt with a calm reply I am.
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Columbus
U.P
Anna Marie Hahn
Ohio
Oscar
Funeral services for Harvey Bishop in Reno
Funeral services for Harvey Bishop aged 85 who died Sunday at his Reno home will be held Tuesday at two o clock in the Long Bottom Church.
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Pomeroy
Harvey Bishop
Reno
Long Bottom
Wooster College Emeritus Professor Dr. Elias Compton Dies
Dr. Elias Compton emeritus professor of philosophy at Wooster College died here today. He was a noted scholar and longtime member of the Wooster academic community.
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Wooster
Elias Compton
Wooster College
Hitler Leaves for Rome on Axis Talks and Monarchical Spectacle
Hitler departed for Rome to deepen the Nazi Fascist axis with Mussolini in six days of elaborate pageantry and naval reviews. The trip was billed as friendship with no new treaties planned, while both leaders sought to gauge Britain France Italy dynamics and Austria’s fate, as Austria’s amnesty decree was issued for some prisoners.
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Berlin
U.P
Adolf Hitler
Rome
Benito Mussolini
Mussolini
Duce
Italy
Hitler
Britain
Austria
19 Die as Italian hydroplane Crashes in Fog
Rescue workers retrieved 19 bodies from Mount Maranola near Formia after a hydroplane from Tirana crashed and burned in fog. Among the dead was Helen Lindheim of New York. Jewelry valued at $1,052,000 belonging to Paris and Vienna firms, once selected for King Zog's bride Geraldine Apponyi, was destroyed.
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Rome
U.P
Appenines
Formia
Helen Lindheim
New York
Tirana
Mount Maranola
Paris
Vienna
Zog
Geraldine Apponyi
Akron man hanged self in jail after wife slaying
Frank Sowards 41, unemployed mechanic, killed his wife a schoolteacher on March 27 and hanged himself in his county jail cell today in Akron.
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Akron
Frank Sowards
La Follette Criticizes Major Parties Prompting Third Party Push
Sen. Robert M. La Follette Jr. tells United Press the Democratic and Republican failure to honor campaign pledges pushed his Wisconsin governor brother to form a new party, the National Progressives of America. He cites factional fights and lack of clear issues since 1932 as the country’s cross roads.
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Washington
Robert M. la Follette
United Press Today
Philip la Follette
Wisconsin
National Progressives of America
Bob
Robert M
Congress
Sne
Father Dies Trying to Rescue Children in House Fire
Ham mond Stewart aged 52 perished while re entering a burning home to reach his two daughters aged 12 and 15 in Sharpsburg area. Neighbors John Joy Joe Beard and Carl Beard saved the girls using a ladder as the roof collapsed. Mrs Stewart escaped with a small child as flames destroyed the residence and most belongings within about an hour.
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Hammond Stewart
Sharpsburg
Stewart
Mrs. Stewart
Civil Service Probe Opens In Columbus
A grand jury inquiry overseen by Attorney General Herbert S. Duffy into charges that state civil service workers were solicited for five percent of their monthly salaries to fund Gov. Martin L. Davey’s campaign was opened today. The panel, restart after a pardon and paroles focus, will hear witnesses as the attorney general keeps names confidential.
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Columbus
Herbert S. Duffy
Martin L. Davey
Coogan Enters Court In Fight For Fortune
Hollywood report says child star Jackie Coogan goes to court to obtain remaining film fortune. His mother and stepfather claimed he did not deserve the money and under California law could not claim it.
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Coogan
Hollywood
Jackie Coogan
California
Ohio Blue Pencil Club Names Zook President
John A. Zook of Urbana assumed the presidency of the Blue Pencil Club of Ohio today in Columbus. Osman C. Hopper of Ohio State was named president emeritus, with Dal ton A. Young of Bellefontaine as vice president and Norval N. Luxon of Columbus as secretary treasurer.
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Columbus
John A. Zook
Urbana
Blue Pencil Club of
Ohio
Osman C. Hopper
Ohio State
Dalton A. Young
Bellefontaine
Norval N. Luxon
Supreme Court Delays Mackay Radio Case Decision
The Supreme Court today postponed ruling in the Mackay Radio case involving the National Labor Relations Board for at least a week. The order affects the high profile dispute over employer and union powers and NLRB authority.
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Washington
U.P
Supreme Court
Mackay Radio & Telegraph Co
National Labor Relations Board
Farm Hand 48 Admits Killing Elderly Couple
Harvey Roush a 48 year old farm hand pleaded guilty to first degree murder in the slaying of his landlord Homer T. Myers 65 and his wife who were found dead in their farm home after being shot and beaten. The couple's home was set afire in three places. Roush said he shot Myers after Myers wrote paid in full on a note he owed.
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Marion
A.P
Harvey Roush
Homer T. Myers
Myers
Here
Roush
Paul D. Michel
Michel
Cincinnati Messenger Boy Robbed of $1500 on Taxi Ramp
Calvin B. Smith, messenger for Union News Co., was held up on the taxi ramp at the union terminal by two bandits who escaped with 1500 dollars in cash and two checks, police reported.
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Cincinnati
U.P
Calvin B. Smith
The
Union News Co
Union Terminal
Tornado kills mother and two children in Cunningham Kansas
A Sunday night tornado ripped through Cunningham Kansas killing a mother and two of her children and injuring 13 others. The storm also struck Coldwater where several more were hurt.
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Cunningham
Kans
Coldwater
Ten Die and Thirty-Two Hurt in Puebla Bus Crash
In Atlixco Puebla State a crowded bus plunged into a bridge wall after a drunken driver sped at full speed. Ten people died and 32 were injured, many of the victims were children.
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Mexico City
Atlixco
Puebla
Roosevelt backs wage hour bill amid House push to kill
President Roosevelt urged Labor Committee Chairman Mary Norton to send the wage hour bill to the House floor and possible discharge petition. Opponents led by Rep Eugene Cox said there is no chance of passage this session as Rules Committee remains hostile.
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Washington
WAP
Roosevelt
House
Mary Norton
Labor Committee
House Rules Committee
Rules Committee
Cox
Rules
Robert Ramspeck
Norton
Mr. Roosevelt
Mrs. Norton
Charleston
S. C
British Forces Force Japanese Retreat in Shanghai
British troops in Shanghai’s International Settlement forced Japanese forces to evacuate the British zone. About fifty Britons in full war dress manned Nanking road with two machine guns, matching Japanese sentries as they withdrew after the attack on a Chinese man who threw a grenade at a Japanese truck.
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Shanghai
Nanking
Seven Die in Automobile Wrecks Over Week End
United Press reports Ohio safety drives reduced weekend traffic fatalities to seven. Most deaths occurred in Northwestern Ohio with three victims.
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United Press
Ohio
Grand Duchess Kira Weds Prince Ferdinand
POTSDAM Germany UP Prince Louis Ferdinand age 31 and Grand Duchess Kira age 29 of the Hohenzollern and Rome Janoff houses were married today.
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Kira
Prince Ferdinand
Potsdam
Germany
Louis Ferdinand
Hohenzollern
Rome
Janoff
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