Americans poised as future royal visit hosts and aides
Mrs D Buchanan Merryman aunt of the Duchess of Windsor is seen as likely official hostess to Duke Edward and the Duchess during their mid November U S visit. Frederick A Sterling the American minister to Latvia dined with the Duke and appears to be Windsor’s advance man for the trip.
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United States
D. Buchanan Merryman
Frederick A. Sterling
Merryman
Duchess of Windsor
Duke Edward
Sterling
Latvia
Windsor
U. S
Mrs. Merryman
Labor Board Member discusses labor dispute view
National Mediation Board member Dr. William M. Leiserson told Antioch College students that in labor disputes no side is wholly right or wrong. He said he does not have all the answers and noted economists and editors often claim certainty.
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Yellow Springs
William M. Leiserson
National Mediation Board
Antioch College
Antioch
Leiserson
Garr Brothers Await Jury Indictment Decision Today
Shelbyville Kentucky. The Garr brothers Dr. E Stanley Roy and Jack admitted assassins of Brig Gen Henry H Denhardt will hear today whether the Shelby County grand jury has indicted them County Attorney Coleman Wright said The brothers remain free under a total of 50000 bond as the jury of 11 farmers and a store keeper begins its investigation into Denhardt s death.
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Shelbyville
U.P
Garr Brothers
Henry H. Denhardt
Shelby County
Grand Jury
Coleman Wright
E. Stanley
Roy
Jack
Denhardt
Missionaries Plight Discussed by Churchmen in Cincinnati
Church leaders at the 52nd triennial general convention sessions in Cincinnati estimated recent damage to Episcopal schools missions and medical centers in China at 200000 and reported thousands of Christian refugees housed and fed on church property.
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Cincinnati U
China
Protestant Episcopal Church
AFL Convention Faces Deep Divisions Over CIO Push and NLRB
Denver reports a stormy AFL gathering as leaders clash over expelling CIO unions and abolishing the NLRB. William Green's drive to crush insurgents slows amid actions by the Typographical Union and calls to disband the labor board in favor of a Wagner Act oriented reform. Green urges public support amid a charged debate on labor responsibility versus recklessness.
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Denver
U.P
American Federation of Labor
CIO
National Labor Relations Board
Organized Labor
William Green
John L. Lewis
Charles P. Howard
Typographers
C.so
Roosevelt
Frances Perkins
Congress
Labor Board
Green
Lewis renounces personal political aims to back unions
John L. Lewis declares at Madison Square Garden that his political goals are limited to electing Thomas Kennedy of the United Mine Workers as Pennsylvania governor. He predicts CIO victory in Detroit elections, LaGuardia’s reelection, and ALP growth aiding his cause.
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New York
William Green
American Federation of Labor
John L. Lewis
Committee For Industrial Organization
C.I.O
Madison Square Garden
Lewis
Thomas Kennedy
United Mine Workers
Pennsylvania
C.1.o
Detroit
F. H. LaGuardia
American Labor Party
LaGuardia
Chinese Forces Halt Japanese Offensive at Dawn
Chinese troops resisted fiercely and repelled renewed Japanese assaults at dawn after a night of heavy bombardment. The American Consulate General and Navy said the transport Chaumont would sail to Kobe on Oct 19 and evacuations would end, with Chaumont resuming regular duties.
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Shanghai
U.P
Chaumont
Kobe
Japan
The
Ross Kidnapping Listed Unsolved by G Men
The FBI lists the 72 year old Charles S Ross disappearance as an unsolved kidnapping. G men records show only two unsolved kidnappings in 107 cases reported.
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Washington
U.P
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Charles S. Ross
Chicago
Behring to be Consecrated Auxiliary Bishop in Cincinnati
Catholic leaders join Most Rev. George J. Behring for his consecration as Auxiliary Bishop of Cincinnati at St. Peter's Cathedral. The ceremony takes place Thursday morning with many clergymen in attendance.
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Cincinnati
U.P
George J. Behring
St. Peter's Cathedral
Ohio relief aid plans advance by legislative units
Senate and House relief committees prepare seven bills to shape a state program for poor relief. They target $11,500 for next year and $1,250,000 for the rest of this year, with local funds required for needs above state support.
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Columbus
U.P
Senate
House
Dahl To Face Spanish Court In Trial Today
Harold E. Dahl of Champaign Indiana faces a Nationalist military tribunal in Salamanca charged with rebellion. Prosecution seeks death, while many expect Franco may grant a pardon. Dahl was captured after being shot down over the Madrid front while aiding the Loyalists. His wife, who left a singing career to join him, wept in Cannes as the case nears its outcome.
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Salamanca
Spain
Harold E. Dahl
Champaign
Dahl
Rudy Vallee
Cannes
France
Madrid
Identity of Red Circle killer baffles police
Police struggle to identify the serial killer nicknamed the Red Circle after the bodies of a boy and a 20 year old girl were found in Lovers Lane Queens. Detectives questioned over 80 people including the victim Lewis Weiss and his girlfriend Frances Hajek who were killed in their parked car with lipstick marks forming red circles on their foreheads.
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New York
U.P
Lovers’ Lane
Lewis Weiss
Frances Hajek
Hollis Woods
Queens
Miss Hajok
Priest Calls Black Choice Mark of FD's Stupidity
Rev. Charles E. Coughlin announced his return to weekly Sunday sermons and attacked Justice Hugo L. Black calling the appointment a monument to President Roosevelt's stupidity. He urged Black wear a white hood and claimed Black swore an oath to oppose Catholics, Negroes, and Jews before taking a new oath to uphold the Constitution.
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Priest
Royal Oak
Mich
U.P
Charles E. Coughlin
Hugo L. Black
Roswelt
Justice Black
Supreme Court
Black
United States
Congress
Fowler Pleads Not Guilty and Sets Trial Date in Meigs Cases
Sheriff Roscoe O. Fowler pleads not guilty to second degree murder in Meigs County. Trial set for Nov 1 before Judge Acton. Fowler suspended by Judge Peoples. Trustees of Meigs Aerie also plead not guilty to gambling indictments with trial on Nov 1. Deputy Hank Young remains in office. The grand jury continues session amid slot machine and gambling investigations.
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Pomeroy
Roscoe
Fowler
Meigs County
Common Pleas Court
C. E. Peoples
Peoples
Hank Young
Roscoe O. Fowler
Frank M. Acton
Lancaster
Acton
Order of Eagles
Meigs Aerie
Eagles
Charles Sacks
Akron
State of Ohio
Lafe Williamson
Black’s Right Before Court Faces First Conference Day
Supreme Court justices meet at noon in secret session to review two motions challenging Hugo Black’s constitutional eligibility. Black attends his first conference day but likely will not participate in the debates on those motions.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Hugo 1
Black Black
Black
Senate
Roosevelt edges toward clash with Court over New Deal
President Roosevelt on the move toward St Paul pledges no tax increases if New Deal measures pass. He argues the Supreme Court junked key acts like AAA and NRA, linking them to employment and income growth. A fiery Ku Klux Klan cross near Long Lake accompanies his train ride. The trip signals possible special congressional session next month to push economic legislation.
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Roosevelt
Hyde Park
N. Y
U.2
Supreme Court
St Paul
Long Lake
Minn
U.P
St. Paul
AAA
NRA
Congress
Northwest
Ohio Wesleyan students hurt in freshman rush termed stable
Delaware reports two Ohio Wesleyan University students injured in the annual freshman sophomore football rush were classified as in good condition by college physician Dr. G T Blydenburg.
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Delaware
U.f
Ohio Wesleyan University
G. T. Blydenburg
Joliet Prison Hunger Strike Faces 2000 Inmates
Stateville prison officials awaited cooperative compliance as about 2,000 inmates began a hunger strike. All 3,477 inmates remained in cells amid restricted services and halted visits while parole board discontent cited.
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Stateville
Joliet
A. L. Bowen
State Board Paroles Two From Hocking County
The State Parole Board today released two inmates from the London Prison Farm with thirty cases continued. Parolees include Hocking Martin Flowers for lar ceny with parole set for Dec. 20, 1987 and Clyde Nixon for non support with parole set for Nov. 20, 1937.
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Columbus
State Parole Board
London
Hocking
Martin Flowers
Clyde Nixon
Roosevelt assails Axis nations in Chicago pacifist address
President Roosevelt in Chicago denounces Germany Italy and Japan for world lawlessness and urges a concerted peace effort. He compares quarantine actions to curb aggressors with a broader plan to deter war while praising Public Works funded projects including the Outer Bridge link and soil conservation as alternates to armaments.
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Chicago
U.P
United States
Roosevelt
Spain
China
Germany
Italy
Japan
America
Outerlink Bridge
Emergency conference proposed on Sino Japanese war
A Geneva based drafting committee approved in principle a proposal to convoke an emergency conference on the Chinese Japanese war. It would include signatories of the Nine Power Treaty guaranteeing China's integrity and other Far East powers. The United States is a treaty signatory.
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Geneva
League
China
Far East
United States
Roosevelt Warns Nations Face Threats to Peace and Security
President Roosevelt denounces aggression by unnamed powers, vows a determined pursuit of peace. He cites violations of the Kellogg Briand Pact and Nine Power Treaty, condemns air bombings and submarine attacks, and laments foreign meddling in civil wars and the sacrifice of innocent people. The address stresses restraint but signals strong stance amid growing tensions.
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Roosevelt
Japan
China
Pants Robbers Captured By Circleville Patrolmen
Two youths escaped from Summit County Jail Akron on Sept 17 and allegedly robbed and kidnapped taxi drivers across Ohio. Circleville patrolmen James Marion Evans 19 of Chillicothe and John Burbank 18 of Manchester New Hampshire arrested them in a local restaurant after a statewide crime spree. The pair said they had driven all over Ohio and attended the Colgate Corner game in Ithaca New York last Saturday.
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Circleville
U.P
Summit County
Akron
James Marion Evans
Chillicothe
John Burbank
Manchester
N. H
Evans
Burbank
Ohio
Ithaca
N. Y
Roosevelt Message on Census Card Aims to Help All Who Want Work
President Roosevelt pledges to use census data for the unemployed and directs 60 million census cards to be distributed. The 14 question form asks name address living status employment ability age race sex work hours weeks worked occupation business and family dependents plus last week’s income.
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Roosevelt
Washington
John D. Biggers
Biggers
Libby- Owens-Ford Plate Glass Co
Frustrate Mob In Effort To Lynch Ne2TO Frustrate Mob In Effort To Lynch
Dover area report says Vandy Lee Matthew a 19 year old Black man is the suspect in an assault on a Dover couple. Sheriff Wayne T Host says the searcher mob of about 100 visited jails in Dover Cadiz and New Philadelphia seeking Matthew but authorities kept him hidden pending grand jury action. Victims Mr and Mrs Forrest Lantzer of Dover are in a Dover hospital with Lantzer in critical condition.
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New Philadelphia
Vandy Lee Matthew
Dover
Wayne T. Host
Matthew
Cadiz
Mne
Host
Forrest Lantzer
Lantzer
Jersey Champ Will Not Appear at Dairy Show
Brampton Basilua a Jersey cow that holds the world butterfat record will not appear at the National Dairy Show in Columbus as she is near giving birth. Owned by B. H. Bull and Son Brampton Ontario Canada the animal will miss the lobby appearance due to the expected birth.
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Columbus
U.P
Brampton
Basilua
Jersey
B. H. Bull and Son
Ont
Canada
Anti-Trust Prosecution Opens Against Oil Firms
In Madison the jury pool for the government anti-trust case against 23 major oil companies and 46 executives convened to hear arguments. Judge Patrick T. Stone warned jurors to avoid outside influence ahead of deliberations.
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Madison
Wis
Patrick T. Stone
Meat Prices Dip in 51 Cities as Labor Survey Reports
Washington report notes that meat prices in 51 cities declined slightly in the month ending Sept 17 while the general price list rose by four tenths of one percent. The Department of Labor release summarizes perishable meat costs amid overall inflation trends across urban markets.
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Washington
U.P
Department of Labor
Newark Man Charged in Slaying During Quarrel
Robert Brothers, 40, Black, was charged with first degree murder in the death of John Pace, 39, Black. Authorities said Pace was killed during a quarrel.
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Newark-U.p
Robert Brothers
John Pace
Pace
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