Vatican Denies Supporting Japan's China Campaign
The Holy See insists on complete neutrality in the Japan China conflict. It rejects reports that Vatican missions in the Far East were told to back Japan against Communism in China and notes good relations with China including native bishops for a 2,600,000 Catholic community.
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Vatican
Japan
China
Holy See
Tokyo
Rome
Vatican City
U.R
Far East
Church
Robert Underwood Johnson dies veteran editor and diplomat
Funeral services Sunday for Robert Underwood Johnson 84 poet former editor of Century Magazine and former ambassador to Italy who died Thursday at his home after a long illness.
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New York
Robert Underwood Johnson
Century Magazine
Italy
Prisoner Near Death Pardoned by Governor Davey
Governor Davey granted a full pardon to Kenyon V. Painter former Cleveland Union Trust Co director who was convicted of misapplication of bank funds Painter began a one to 30 year sentence on June 28 and has been in a Columbus hospital for weeks with his physician saying he is in imminent danger of death.
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Columbus
U.P
Davey
Kenyon V. Painter
Cleveland Union Trust Co
Painter
Britain and France Press Final Spanish Withdrawal Push
Britain and France brace for a last bid to force Mussolini to pull troops from Spain and evacuate Majorca. Delegates from Britain France Russia Italy Germany Sweden Czecho-Slovakia Belgium and Portugal meet to outline strategy and await instructions as reports hint at possible withdrawal and recognition shifts.
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London
Britain
France
Benito Mussolini
Italy
Majorca
Balearics Islands
Russia
Germany
Sweden
Czecho - Slovakia
Belgium
Portugal
Paris
Mussolini
Oil Trial Nearing End In Wisconsin Price Fixing Case
Madison dispatch reports prosecutors wrapped up calling midwestern oil jobbers from Wisconsin Illinois Iowa and Missouri as witnesses in the price fixing conspiracy trial of 23 major oil companies. Oscar L Peterson of Illinois testified about contract changes from 1930 to the present showing growing uniformity.
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Madison
Wis
U.P
Wisconsin
Ilinois
Iowa
Missouri
Oscar L. Peterson
Illinois
Stocks Plunge to New Lows Amid Auto and Rail Selloff
Heavy selling in rail and motor shares pushed the market to new two year lows. Chrysler slid 3 ¼ to 72 ½, General Motors fell a point to 40, New York Central down a point to 19 ¾, Southern Pacific 22 ¼, Atchison 42 ½, Union Pacific 92, U S Steel up then erased gains, Du Pont down 3 to 125. Oils weakened as Standard Oil of New Jersey dropped over a point.
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NEW York
U.P
Chrysler
General Motors
New York Central
Southern Pacific
Atchison
Union Pacific
U. S. Steel
Bethlehem
DuPont
Standard Oil
New Jersey
2 200 Foot Flood Wall Planned at Wellsville
U S Army engineers notified mayor that a 2 200 foot flood wall will be built in Wellsville first in the Ohio Valley The wall will be 54 feet high three feet above the 51 foot flood level and will cost 132 000 The project includes three flood gates at the lowland railroad crossing.
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Wellsville
U.S
U. S. Army Engineers
Howard L. Kelley
Ohio Valley
Lowland Railroad Crossing
Ex convict killed in sleep in Cleveland home
Charles Gallo an ex convict was killed with an axe as he slept on a davenport in his Cleveland home Police hunted a boarder in the house with whom Gallo had quarreled
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Cleveland
U.P
Charles Gallo
Gallo
Chicagoan Doctor Reveals Sterility Ovulation Hormone
Dr. M Edward Davis of Chicago won the yearly honor from the Central Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists for a new intravenous treatment using horse blood derived sex hormone to overcome female sterility. He said a single injection may induce full development and ovulation and could help thousands of women become mothers, with potential for twins and aid in related disorders.
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Dallas
Tex
M. Edward Davis
Chicago
Central Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
Dr. Davis
United States to Join Nine Power Treaty Conference
State Department officials expect to announce American participation in the Nine Power Treaty conference to address the Sino Japanese war with mediation and delegation led by Norman H. Davis. Secretary Hull indicated quick action once invited, though officials warn against expecting immediate settlement.
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Hull
Washington-Aup
State Department
United States
Cordell Hull
Norman H. Davis
Europe
America
Davis
Washington
League of Nations Assembly
Presi
Dent Roosevelt
Hugh Wilson
Threat to kill Brady tied to gang leader’s capture
James Dalhover described to officials how he and Clarence Shaffer Jr warned Al Brady to stop his publicity seeking or be killed. Brady consented briefly but was killed with Shaffer during the Bangor, Maine, raid while Dalhover was captured and brought to Indianapolis on bank robbery charges awaiting murder case options.
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Indianapolis
Ind
James Dalhover
G-men
Clarence Lee Shaffer, Jr
al Brady
Brady
Shaffer
Dalhover
Department of Justice
Bangor
Newly Insured Girl Wounded in Accidental Shot
Edith Dingo, 22, of Erie near Clarksburg, was seriously wounded moments after taking out a life insurance policy. The shotgun discharged accidentally when her cousin Fred Gabriel, who had won the gun on a punch board, brought it to her home to show it. She was still speaking with the insurance agent when struck in the face.
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Clarksburg
W. Va
Iu.p
Edith Dingo
Erie
Here
Fred Gabriel
Novelist's Daughter Signed for Pictures
Hollywood reports 18 year old Mary Lou Lender daughter of novelist Charles Franklin Lender of Columbus Ohio signed for the feminine lead in the film County Fair with actor John Arledge after paying her own way to Hollywood and funding tuition at Western College for Women Mt Holyoke Ohio.
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Hollywood
U.P
Mary Lou Lender
Columbus
Ohio
Charles Franklin Lender
Down the Ohio
Clarke
Western College For Women
Mt. Holyoke, O
County Fair
John Arledge
Hold Two Toledoans on Counterfeiting Charge
Secret service agents hold Leo David Fonner and Edward C Webb of Toledo on counterfeiting charges. More than $1,200 in fraudulent notes were found in Fonner's possession as agents trace a flow of fake $20 bills in the Toledo area over the last three weeks.
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Toledo
Secret Service
Leo David Fonner
David Ward
Edward C. Webb
Edward C. Evans
Fonner
Funeral Services Held for 112 Year Old John Henry Davis
Funeral services were held today at White Oak Church near Latham for John Henry Davis who died Wednesday at the age of 112 at the home of a daughter near Bainbridge.
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Chillicothe
U.P
White Oak Church
Latham
John Henry Davis
Bainbridge
Shanghai Quiet After Bitter Battle Ends Standstill
Chinese and Japanese troops fought to a standstill around Shanghai as exhaustion and heavy casualties marked the most brutal hours of the two month siege. Japanese planes dropped bombs in four city outskirts while Woosung Creek area saw the last active fighting.
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Shanghai
Woosung Creek
Clear Mobster Of Conn Death
Columbus patrol officials say Col Lynn Black questioned James Dalhover of the Al Brady gang in Indianapolis about the murder of Patrolman George Conn. Dalhover, captured in Bangor Maine, denied killing Conn and insisted the gang did not do it while evidence placed Brady gang members in Maine and Connecticut at the time.
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Columbus
Walter Eckert
Ohio State Highway Patrol
Lynn Black
Ohio Force
James Dalhover
al Brady
Indianapolis
Ind
George Conn
Ohio University
Freeport
Eckert
Maine
Connecticut
Dalhover
Bango
Conn
One Man Picked On Hahn Poison Jury
Cincinnati report outlines jury selection for death penalty trial of Mrs. Anna Marie Hahn 31 charged with murdering Jacob Wagner 78 and several other elderly German acquaintances by poisoning to gain estates. Jury of 11 women and one man finalized. Granda the sole male regular juror. 13th alternate is a man.
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Cincinnati
O.P
Dudley M. Outcalt
Anna Marie Hahn
Jacob Wagner
John Granda
Ohio Board Paroles 75 Inmates of Mansfield
The Ohio Board of Parole today released 75 inmates from the State Reformatory at Mansfield. Included are Meigs Albert Miller serving burglary and larceny with parole after December 20 1937 to West Virginia and Athens Chester Windle paroled for breaking and entering and larceny on December 20 1937.
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Columbus
Ohio Board of Parole
State Reformatory
Mansfield
Meigs
Albert Miller
West Virginia
Athens
Chester Windle
Ohio inmate Charles Morgan sentenced to life for murder
Charles Morgan, 38, convicted of first degree murder after killing his cellmate George Ruck, 23, at the Ohio Penitentiary last February. The court recommended mercy in the life imprisonment sentence.
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Columbus
U.P
Charles Morgan
Ohio Penitentiary
George Ruck
New Dun Menace Threated Sing Sing Prison
Pomeroy staff special reports Charles F. Davis, maker of a dried egg product, sent a bill overdue by 30 days to Sing Sing Prison. He warned he would “go to Sing Sing and board it out” if unpaid. Prison officials replied that the debt would be paid.
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Charles F. Davis
Sing Sing
New York
Leaders Fail To Agree on Crop Control
Washington reports sharp disagreement among farm groups and officials over a crop control bill. National Grange and Farmers Union oppose the O Neale ever normal granary plan while Edward A O Neals American Farm Bureau Federation bill gains tentative approval in principle from Wallace before the House Agricultural Committee.
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Washington
Edward A. O'Neal
American Farm Bureau Federation
Wallace
O'Neal
House Agricultural Committee
Peace Sought In Ford Strike Ends Picket Action
In Kansas City Missouri the United Automobile Workers withdrew pickets at the Ford Assembly plant and proposed terms to end the strike. UAW district representative Jack Swift said workers should return to duty quickly and allowed re-employment of Independent Ford Workers Union members if UAW members are not excluded. The union demanded no outsiders be hired until regular workers have positions.
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Kansas City
U.P
United Automobile Workers Today
Ford Assembly
Ford
Jack Swift
UAW
Ford Workers Union
America Raising Sissies Life Camp Director Says
Savannah Georgia Dr Lloyd Burgess Sharp executive director of life camps charged at the 23rd annual Girl Scouts convention that America is raising a generation of sissies He urged youth face challenge and opportunity not mollycoddling and warned against overprotecting young people as youth drift from sharply weak attitudes.
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Savannah
U.P
America
Lloyd Burgess Sharp
Life Camps
Girl Scouts
Sharp
Circulation of petitions for one house legislature in Ohio
Ohio lawmakers initiate petitions to amend the state constitution to create a unicameral legislature. State Rep. George J. Harter announces the plan to submit the amendment to voters at the 1938 general election.
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Columbus
O.P
George J. Harter
Akron
Ohio Single House Legislature League
Major Battle Expected on Franco Spanish Frontier
Loyalist and Nationalist forces prepared to renew major offensives this weekend on the Aragon front. Authorities warned the clash could be among the fiercest of the Civil War with more than 200000 Loyalist troops involved.
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Hendaye
U.R
Aragon
Seventeen anti Fascist intellectuals jailed in Italy
Rome dispatch reports seventeen more anti Fascist intellectuals sentenced to prison on charges of plotting to overthrow Premier Mussolini. The disclosure came today as part of a crackdown on dissent.
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ROME
U.P
Mussolini
Delegations Plan Talks in Washington October 25
The CIO proposed a peace conference with 10 member committee to meet the AFL in Washington during the week of October 25. The AFL rejected a 100 member CIO committee but agreed to participate with a smaller permanent AFL committee and a similar CIO panel. The dispute centers on dissolution of the CIO and the industrial union model.
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Washington
Lewis’ Organization
Atlantic City
N. J
Committee For Industr
American Federation of Secial
Frank Morrison
A. F. of L
Morrison
Federation
CIO
C.I.O
Committee For Industrial Organization
C.so
C.I.0
CLO
Federation Hopes for Peace Yet Prepares for Bitter War
The American Federation of Labor closes its annual convention in Denver with hopes for peace among unions while arming for a tough battle against the CIO led by the Committee for Industrial Organize Speculation. President Roosevelt’s rumored peace plan is under cautious scrutiny as leaders weigh future steps and reaffirm unity if war erupts.
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Washington
U.P
National Labor Relations Board
American Federation of Labor
Committee For Industrial Organization
Denver
Committee For Industrial Organize
Roosevelt
America
Robert Wagner
N. Y
A. F. of L
CIO
White House
Allion
Lewis
Federation Convention
Houston
Tex
Executive Council
Council
United Mine Workers
Amalgamated Clothing Workers
Curfew Enforced in Palestine After Day of Bloodshed
In Jerusalem authorities impose a drastic curfew after 24 hours of violence linked to Britain partition plans. The unrest included ambushes trains derailments and a bus bombing that killed at least seven people including two British constables and wounded more than twenty.
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Jerusalem
U.P
Great Britain
Palestine
Judge rules bookies legal in Illinois betting cases
Chicago police raided handbook operators after Municipal Judge Eugene L. McGarry ruled that betting on horse races through bookies is not illegal in Illinois. The ruling dismissed charges against nearly 1000 people while police held 30 alleged operators.
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Chicago
U.P
Eugene L. McGarry
Illinois
Mee Garry
McGarry
Dancer Dying as Secret Friend Pays Hospital Bills
In San Francisco June England, 22, a nightclub dancer, lay dying from mercury poisoning. An anonymous benefactor covered her hospital costs, nurses, and doctors while flowers arrived without cards. Police noted bad company and a sister also works in clubs. The prognosis was grim and final.
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San Francisco
HUP
England
Jean Harlow
Ciry
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